Did you follow README.debian and issued the following to create the user?:
#su - postgres -c "createuser --createdb --no-createrole --pwprompt openerp"
However #327998 says NOT to createdb ! What to do?
Did you edit /etc/openerp-server.conf and added the password you chose
to the "db_password ="
** Attachment added: "postgresql-8.4-main.log"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39790389/postgresql-8.4-main.log
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Ident authentication failed for user "openerp"
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** Attachment added: "openerp-server.log"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39790359/openerp-server.log
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Ident authentication failed for user "openerp"
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** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39790325/Dependencies.txt
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