Hi! John Hasler [2005-05-18 8:11 -0500]: > > Did you happen to have purged postgresql, manually removed the > > /etc/postgresql/ directory (which still contained postgresql.env) and > > reinstalled the postgresql package? > > No. I just did 'apt-get install postgresql'.
And you are sure that you didn't manually remove /etc/postgresql/ in the past? I don't know how the file /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env (which belongs to postgresql-client, not postgresql) may have disappeared automatically. > Reinstalling postgresql-client solved the problem. Seems to me there is a > problem here, though, even if my problem was some sort of one-time bit > rot. An admin should be able to purge a package, remove all traces of it, > and then reinstall it and have it work. Right, but not if you "remove a trace" which is a file that belongs to another package you didn't purge... Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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