Re: postgresql help

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

When you do an uninstall with purge, your original packages are still in 
/var/cache/apt/archives.  I had a situation with timidity that was similar 
though I had lost one of timidity's configuration files and reinstalling 
using packages already on the hard drive did not repair the situation.  I 
ended up deleting from /var/cache/spt/archives the timidity files after an 
uninstall with purge had been done then did an aptitude install on 
timidity and that did repair the situation.



On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Tom Allison wrote:

> I'm at a road block...
>
> I was reinstalling my hard drives to put in a RAID1 array.
> The RAID/LVM stuff works 100%.
>
> But somewhere I screwed up my postgresql-8.2 database installation.
> I meant to set up the data directory on the RAID disk array
> Unfortunately I deleted the /var/lib/postgresql/ directory and can't or don't 
> know what to do to fix it.
>
> No big deal, nothing invested, so I did a uninstall/purge on postgresql-8.2.
> I reinstalled the database using aptitude (postgresql-8.2, 
> postgres-client-8.2, libpq5) thinking that this would fix everything.
>
> Nothing is happening.
> No logs created to indicate if it works or not.
> No directory created to show where the data directory is.
> Nothing.
>
> I'm just staring blankly at this.
> I did a uninstall + purge and no errors reported.
> I do a reinstall and NOTHING.
>
> I've never experienced anything this blank before.
>
> help?
>
>
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