paster setup-app quietly does nothing

[Matthew Cahn]

Hello all,

I've tried the end-user mailing list to no avail and I think it's time to to ask the developers.  I have an app that's been working for quite a while.  In order to deploy a new version on my test server I removed the database and software, and reran the installation.  This has worked repeatedly, but suddenly I find that the command "paster setup-app production.ini" fails to create the database tables.  It simply returns to the command prompt without errors, and never tries to create the tables.

It's a MySQL database.  Switching back to sqlite made no difference.
TG 2.1.5 vs TG 2.2.0, also no difference.
Strangely, logging out and back in caused it to work one more time, and then it never worked again.

I've been trying to trace through the code to see why nothing happens.  If it's any clue these are some things that are called, or not called.  Some of these may not be relevant:

In PasteScript-1.7.5-py2.6.egg/paste/script/appinstall.py...

   Installer.__init__() is called with arguments: fishdb 0.3 paste.app_factory main.

    call_sysconfig_functions() is called twice with the arguments: install_variables, post_setup_hook

fishdb/config/middleware.py
    make_app is never called

fishdb/websetup/__init__.py:
    setup_app() never called

It seems like this last one is the place that would call schema.setup_schema to create the tables.  Could anyone think of a reason this is not happening?

Thanks,
Matthew