On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:10:05 will trillich wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Boyd -- Please use interleaved quoting style. If that's too much effort, please bottom-post and trim the quoted text to only what is relevant. It makes the posts easier to read for experts that may have not been following the thread from the beginning. I've tried to correct your quoting below. I apologize if I don't get it exactly correct. > Subject: Re: apt-get upgrade trouble (with postgresql- client-7.4) > From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." bss@iguanasuicide.net >>On Monday 09 March 2009 15:31:23 will trillich wrote: >>> # /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 stop >>> Stopping PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: mainError: pid file is >>> invalid, please manually kill the stale server process. >>> failed! >> Have you followed this instruction and then removed the pid file? >> That should convince the init script that postgresql-7.4 is stopped >> and let the removal so forward. > > There *is* no pidfile for postgres 7.4 (check the original message -- > we've got one for 8.1, none for 7.4 :). The init script for postgresql-7.4 thinks you do. I need to make the command "invoke-rc.d postgresql-7.4 stop" run cleanly as root. That is the command that apt insists on having complete before it will continue. As it is, your packaging system is in an inconsistent state, and apt is trying to fix it before it will do anything else. > The real problem is really > "main/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_controldata: error while loading > shared libraries: libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory." No, that's not really a problem. That would only be a problem if you actually wanted to run postgresql-7.4, which uses libpq.so.3. Postgresql-8.1 uses a later version of this library, either 4 or 5, I can't remember. > And now it's got our entire system un-updateable! Apt-get is broken > until we can unravel this. We'd like to remove psql7.4 (using 8.1 just > fine now) but apt is STUCK. Suggestions welcome... Thanks! Clear the error apt is reporting when you do the run first. At that point apt will continue, get your packaging into a consistent state, and then let you make further changes. I know that the apt error is coming from one of the packaging scripts, probably prerm or postrm. I think one of those calls the postgresql-7.4 init script and that is reporting an error. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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