Jeff Noxon wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Networking Wizard wrote:
>> After Shared PostgreSQL library intsallation (libpgsql 6.3.2-8)
>> i've been trying to inttall postgresql (6.3.2-8) severl times,
>> but i did not succeed; dpkg terminates because of unspecified errors.
>> Here is the log:
>>
>> > Unpacking replacement postgresql ...
>> > Setting up postgresql (6.3.2-8) ...
>> > Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data
>> > su - postgres -c PATH=/usr/uxs:/root/uxs:/root/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/
>local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/lib/postgres
>ql/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin; initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib -r /va
>r/postgres/data -u postgres
>> > dpkg: error processing postgresql (--install):
>
>[snip]
>
>I think the bug is in base-passwd.
>
>You need to edit /etc/passwd so that the shell is /bin/sh or similar. I
>filed a bug report on base-passwd about this.
The bug is not in base-passwd but in postgresql. I used adduser to create
the account if it did't exist, but I had not noticed that `adduser --system'
assigns /bin/false as the shell. I have changed postgresql-6.3.2-11
to use useradd instead. This is bug#24036.
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