On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:46:32PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> First, I assume that most of you installed postgresql-8.3 *after* the
> initial Debian installation, i. e. you did not choose the database
> server task in debian-installer? If you did, then please have a look
> at /var/log/installer and check if they have anything regarding to
> postgresql, in particular the package install log.
>
I did an install without the dtabase task and after that I
selected many packages for instalation, postgresql among them.
> But many reporters pointed out that the installed PostgreSQL later,
> thus I don't think it is an install-time only bug. Can anyone of you
> still say whether you already had the package "locales" installed when
> you installed postgresql-8.3? Did you have a locale configured and
> used?
>
I was using ca_ES.UTF-8. Apparently well configured/installed.
>
> First, failure case: This usually happens if the locale is invalid,
> but that wouldn't leave an /etc/postgresql/ behind (see above). Then
> there can be all sorts of file system things, such as /var not being
> writable, but since it works with a manual pg_createcluster, I don't
> believe that this is the reason for all your reports.
>
I didn't fic any of these before I could manually create the cluster.
I installed with just the root partition and swap. And the partition
was writeable. I checked the logs and I didn't see anything unusal,
so I guess /var/log/ was writable.
I don't know much more and that system is still running windows :( .
I think it's only been booted to linux once since my report, for some minutes
only.
> Then, the "not attempted" case: This is determined in
> /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions,
> configure_version():
>
> |# arguments: <major version> <most recently configured package version>
> |configure_version() {
> | VERSION="$1"
> |
> | # Create a main cluster for given version ($1) if no cluster already
> exists
> | # for that version and we are installing from scratch.
> | [ "$VERSION" ] || { echo "Error: configure_version: need version
> parameter" >&2; exit 1; }
> | if [ ! -d "/etc/postgresql/$VERSION" ] || [ -z "$(ls
> /etc/postgresql/$VERSION)" ] || \
> | [ -z "$(ls /etc/postgresql/$VERSION/*/postgresql.conf
> 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
> | [ "$2" ] || /usr/bin/pg_createcluster -u postgres $VERSION main
> || {
> | echo "Error: could not create default cluster. Please create it
> manually with
> |
> | pg_createcluster $VERSION main --start
> |
> |or a similar command (see 'man pg_createcluster')." >&2
> | }
> | fi
> |
> | _link_manpages "$VERSION" "postgresql-$VERSION" postmaster.1.gz
> |}
>
> So this means that a cluster is only created automatically if:
>
> 1. /etc/postgresql/8.3/ does not exist, or /etc/postgresql/8.3/ is
> empty, or /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf does not exist
Mmm.. I copied some configurations from another machine. I don't think
I copied /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/postgresql.conf but I guess I might have.
But I reported /etc/postgres was empty, so I guess I didn't copy it.
> 2. The package postgresql-8.3 was not installed before, or was
> purged.
>
It wasn't installed before and was ony purged after the issue appeared.
> It seems very unlikely to me that those conditions were not met with a
> fresh Lenny install, though, but perhaps it gives some of you a clue
> what could have happened.
>
No clue, sorry. In fact the more I think of it the less I can explained it.
It just happened. What gives ?
> How exactly did you install Lenny? Which medium, which tasks, which
> locales? Could any of you attach the installer logs
> (/var/log/installer)?
>
I choosed Catalan language in the installer, and configured ca_ES.UTF-8
as default locale. I can't attach the logs now, but I guess it doesn't
matter since it wasn't installed from the debian installer.
Sorry for being unhelpful.
Thanks for your caring for this bug report.
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