Just upgraded one of my servers to etch. (really a new install) - new system, had dumped sarge on it earlier, but never deployed.
now: etch (i386) - net install source: ftp://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ (never used this source before, this was the first server setup in france) Anyway, I installed posgresql (8.1) and it refused to start, no errors in /var/log/postgresql, /var/log/syslog ditto with 7.4 the Daemon would not start. Tried purging the packages and re-installing but no use. after much searching and debugging I initialized the DB manually (initdb) these are the two commands I had to use. as "postgres" user 1. /usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/ as root: 2. su -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/ -l /var/lib/postgresql/logfile start' postgres after this, the daemon started. Anyone else faced this? I do not have this problem ? Or would this be a bug. Incidentaly a very similar problem was faced currently by a friend who had to work with RHEL (latest), this was done using his help. This worked for him as well (above). NOTE: the default locale was set to en_GB previously - the above commands would not work until I set Lang=C. Few qsts. remain: 1. Why did the DB not initalise, this worked fine even on testing previously? 2. No errors reported anywhere? this is definetly unusual 3. If is was a locale problem, perhaps there should be a check or at least a mention of this in the README ? I could not find anything, so I (mistakenly?) assumed that this was not the case. any ideas, anyone? I have to do a few more upgrades to etch over the coming weeks as we move over, but I would prefer to have this sorted out. -- I should mention I am running AMD64 arch on my laptop (testing), and got no errors - but its running and not freshly setup. This was my first using i386 - stable etch. hoping to find some answers Erle -- of course: Thanks to all invovled for all the good work over the years :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
