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Re: postgres intallation failed



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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