Hallo Martin, On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 05:34:18PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Helge Kreutzmann [2006-05-21 15:44 +0200]: > > During installation of postgresql-8.1 /var became full. I created some > > space by removing some files in /var/cache/apt/archives, and tried to > > continue the installation which however fails: > > [...] > > Thanks for your report! > > > At this point I am stuck. Both installing and removing fail. Btw. > > there is still 28 MB free on /var (now). > > Please do 'rm -rf /var/lib/postgresql/ /etc/postgresql/' to clean up. > (But please save these directories for debugging).
The first one is empty (i.e., only a directory structure) and I removed it (after backing it up, see below), the second one I renamed for the moment being (should do the trick as well). > > If that matters: There used to be a 7.x database when the machine was > > on Sarge, but during uprade for some reason postgresql was removed, > > and I now wanted to reinstall it (possibly manually restoring the > > dump). > > If you think that's a postgresql related bug, can you please file a > separate one? No, I don't think it is a postgresql related bug. I used a mirror of ftp.debian.org, but (comparing to my ppc laptop) not all packages in Etch appeared there, so later I added (temporarily) the "old" alioth source, but then, postgresql was already "gone". So I simply think that some intermediate version problem hit me. > > I will wait a few days if you want me to diagnose further, otherwise I > > will try to get it removed/installed somehow. > > Can you please tar up /etc/postgresql/ and /var/lib/postgresql/ and > make it available for debugging somewhere? I already had a similar bug > in the past, and I failed to reproduce this broken state. (I'm on > amd64 myself, so the architectures match). You can find those (really small files) in http://www.helgefjell.de/data/pgupdate_etc.tar.bz2 and in http://www.helgefjell.de/data/pgupdate_var.tar.bz2 (respectively). Ok, let's see if it now works: Creating new cluster (configuration: /etc/postgresql/8.1/main, data: /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main)... FATAL: konnte nicht in Datei »base/10792/2666« schreiben: Auf dem Gerät ist kein Speicherplatz mehr verfügbar Kindprozess hat mit Code 1 beendet initdb: entferne Inhalt des Datenverzeichnisses »/var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main« Error: initdb failed dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von postgresql-8.1 (--configure): Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: postgresql-8.1 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ok, still too little space, it seems, but: remaxp:~# df -h /var Dateisystem Größe Benut Verf Ben% Eingehängt auf /dev/mapper/system_vg-var_lv 6,9G 6,6G 23M 100% /var Does postgresql need more than 23 MB to install? Maybe a check could be added then? (And yes, *no* file system is full!) Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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