Re: postgres install fails on sid
Hi John, On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:05:42PM +, John Masters wrote: I've chmod 666 /dev/null and now postgres installs OK. However I hesitate to go further as this server is on a VPS. Could that be why the perms were not set properly? I can think of no reason why anyone would provision a server of any sort with a /dev/null that is a regular file, so I suspect a mistake somewhere. Also I suspect it has not been in that state for a long time, as so many things redirect their output to /dev/null that it would quickly grow to fill the filesystem. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB signature.asc Description: Digital signature
postgres install fails on sid
I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start Doing this (as root) produces the following output:- Creating new cluster (configuration: /etc/postgresql/8.2/main, \ data: /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main)... sh: /dev/null: Permission denied fgets failure: Success The program postgres is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory as /usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/initdb. Check your installation. Error: initdb failed But the program postgres IS in the same directory as initdb 8.1 installed OK on my Etch server so I tried that on sid Same result Anyone any ideas? Any pointers would be very welcome -- Regards, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres install fails on sid
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start Doing this (as root) produces the following output:- Creating new cluster (configuration: /etc/postgresql/8.2/main, \ data: /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main)... sh: /dev/null: Permission denied fgets failure: Success The program postgres is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory as /usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/initdb. Check your installation. Error: initdb failed But the program postgres IS in the same directory as initdb 8.1 installed OK on my Etch server so I tried that on sid Same result Anyone any ideas? I would start with the first problem that is reported: sh: /dev/null: Permission denied. What are the permissions of the /dev/null node on your system? It should be writable by anyone: $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-07 14:28 /dev/null -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres install fails on sid
On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start Doing this (as root) produces the following output:- Creating new cluster (configuration: /etc/postgresql/8.2/main, \ data: /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main)... sh: /dev/null: Permission denied I would start with the first problem that is reported: sh: /dev/null: Permission denied. What are the permissions of the /dev/null node on your system? It should be writable by anyone: $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-07 14:28 /dev/null Thanks, that seems to be the problem. permissions for /dev/null are -rw-r--r-- What is the c part of the permissions and how do you set it? I have googled and searched my books but all I can find is that it is a character device file but no mention of how to set the attribute. Would it be OK to just chmod 666? -- Regards, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres install fails on sid
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 16:35:44 +, John Masters wrote: On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start Doing this (as root) produces the following output:- Creating new cluster (configuration: /etc/postgresql/8.2/main, \ data: /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main)... sh: /dev/null: Permission denied I would start with the first problem that is reported: sh: /dev/null: Permission denied. What are the permissions of the /dev/null node on your system? It should be writable by anyone: $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-07 14:28 /dev/null Thanks, that seems to be the problem. permissions for /dev/null are -rw-r--r-- What is the c part of the permissions and how do you set it? I have googled and searched my books but all I can find is that it is a character device file but no mention of how to set the attribute. The c means that it is a special file to begin with; you cannot just set this property for an existing normal file. Such special files used to be created with the mknod command, but nowadays udev should take care of their creation. Would it be OK to just chmod 666? The permission error will probably be gone then, but it would still be a normal file and not a real /dev/null, which is used to dump the output of all sorts of commands that are called in scripts. (The job of /dev/null is to swallow input without a trace.) I would remove (or rename) the file and run udevtrigger as root, followed by echo xxx /dev/null That should force udev to create the device node. Afterwards you should see this: $ file /dev/null /dev/null: character special (1/3) If that does not work then something is wrong with your udev configuration. The first thing to check is if the relevant rules exist: $ grep null /etc/udev/* /etc/udev/links.conf:M null c 1 3 /etc/udev/permissions.rules:KERNEL==null, MODE=0666 If all else fails then you could try to create the device node yourself (as root): mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 However, if udev is active it will normally intercept this command and redirect the device node creation to /dev/.static/dev/null (AFAIK). -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgres install fails on sid
On 19:14 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 16:35:44 +, John Masters wrote: On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start I would start with the first problem that is reported: sh: /dev/null: Permission denied. What are the permissions of the /dev/null node on your system? It should be writable by anyone: $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-10-07 14:28 /dev/null Thanks, that seems to be the problem. permissions for /dev/null are -rw-r--r-- What is the c part of the permissions and how do you set it? I have googled and searched my books but all I can find is that it is a character device file but no mention of how to set the attribute. The c means that it is a special file to begin with; you cannot just set this property for an existing normal file. Such special files used to be created with the mknod command, but nowadays udev should take care of their creation. Would it be OK to just chmod 666? The permission error will probably be gone then, but it would still be a normal file and not a real /dev/null, which is used to dump the output of all sorts of commands that are called in scripts. (The job of /dev/null is to swallow input without a trace.) I've chmod 666 /dev/null and now postgres installs OK. However I hesitate to go further as this server is on a VPS. Could that be why the perms were not set properly? I have been running this server for about 3 weeks just with a basic mail setup - Postfix/Courier/Procmail passing all mail through Spamassassin on another server, so some of the obvious spam I have been sending to /dev/null which seems to work. I am unfamiliar with the deployment of VPS's, I just use them, so I assume this should have been setup when the VPS was created. -- Regards, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
