Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-12-05 9:46 +0100]: > Sorry for late reply. Here is the output of 'id postgresql' : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id postgres > uid=12966(postgres) gid=0(root) groupes=0(root) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > I hope it can help ...
It indeed does. It should actually look like
uid=116(postgres) gid=116(postgres) Gruppen=116(postgres)
i. e. there are several things wrong about your user:
* The user ID should be smaller than 1000 to make postgres a system
user.
* postgres should have its own system group instead of being in
group 'root'. This is the cause for your failure.
Since I do not believe that adduser --system created this user, I
strongly suspect that it existed before installing postgresql-common
already. It does not look like a regular user either, though - they
must not be in group 'root'.
Thus, a quickfix for you would be to do
deluser postgres
and reinstall postgresql-common and postgresql-7.4. However, please
make double sure that you don't need that user for anything else.
I can add a check to the postgresql-common package that will make the
installation fail with a meaningful message if an invalid postgres
user already exists. However, there is not much more I could do about
that.
Thanks,
Martin
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