Postgresql fails to start on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
- by cancerballs
I installed postgresql 9.2 from add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql using apt-get install postgresql-9.2
At the end of the install and every time I try to launch postgresql by using the following command
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
or
service postgresql start
I get this error:
Error: could not exec /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/pg_ctl
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/pg_ctl start -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main -l
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.2-main.log -s -o -c
config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/postgresql.conf" :
[fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing postgresql-9.2 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
postgresql-9.2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have tried everything found here: How to thoroughly purge and reinstall postgresql on ubuntu and here: Eliminating non working postgresql installations on ubuntu 10-04 and starting af.
I have also done
dpkg -P --force-remove-reinstreq postgresql-client-9.2
in my attempt to remove everything postgres related from my server.
After removing postgresql I have used
dpkg --get-selections | grep postg
To be sure there is nothing left and I can do a clean install.
I have also made sure that the files and folders mentioned in the error message have the right permissions. The /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.2-main.log file is empty.
I have tried installing every postgresql version from 8.3 to 9.2 and I get the same error on every time. I once managed to compile postgresql from the source provided on their website but then I encountered weird errors with psycopg2 so I figured I'd install postgresql this way and avoid those errors. Also when I type apt-get install postgresql it by default tries to install the 8.3 version even when I can find the package by typing apt-get install postgresql-9.2.
