jeffry s wrote: > i got the message during installation > > bayau:/var/log/postgresql# apt-get install postgresql-8.3 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > postgresql-8.3 is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 622 not upgraded. > 2 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Setting up postgresql-8.3 (8.3.0-1) ... > Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server: main* Error: Could not > create log file /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.3-main.log > failed!
Could it be, that for some reason postgresql is already running? Check this by examining the output of `ps aux`. > i already did what u told me to do. but is is the same thing. if do > /var/log/postgresql# dpkg-reconfigure postgresql-8.3 > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: postgresql-8.3 is broken or not fully > installed So the touch-command exited successfully, i.e. produced no output? What happens when you purge postgresql (`apt-get purge postgresql-8.3`) and then reinstall it? Please use the mailing-list for things that belong there. Regards, Tobias
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