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> Subject:
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> debian-user-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 546
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> Today's Topics:
> Re: postgres intallation failed
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> Subject: Re: postgres intallation failed
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:29:17 +0200
> From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>
> To: Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>
> CC: pumilia@est.it, debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> 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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> Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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