On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 04:02:20PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script > > > from > > > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is > > > doing? > > > If it does log, where does it put the log? > > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731862 > > > > Near the very end it suggests: > > strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log -s 2048 -p 1 & systemctl restart > > postgresql.service > > In fact the other suggestion there, of suppressing the redirect to > systemctl, proved helpful. the problem is actually in postgresql- > common, in a Perl script.
Could you be more specific? Someone else may come across the same problem. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X