on debian 4.0, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade led to a problem
where postgres 7 won't start! apparently utility program
"pg_controldata" is supposed to generate some locale-info that's
parsed by perl script "pg_ctlcluster", and the two suddenly don't jibe
at all--
argh:
"""
Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.23-0etch1) ...
Starting PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: mainpg_controldata: could not
open file "/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/global/pg_control" for
reading: No such file or directory
Error: Could not parse locale out of pg_controldata output
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql-7.4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
"""
trying /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 start -- we traced the process where
the trouble occurs to perl script "pg_ctlcluster":
# perl -Td `which pg_ctlcluster ` 7.4 main start
after some stepping and nexting, we get to here:
pg_controldata: could not open file
"/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/global/pg_control" for reading: No such
file or directory
PgCommon::get_cluster_locales(/usr/share/postgresql-common/PgCommon.pm:707):
707: restore_exec;
DB<2> v
704: prepare_exec ('LC_ALL', 'LANG', 'LANGUAGE');
705: $ENV{'LC_ALL'} = 'C';
[B]706: my $result = open (CTRL, '-|', $pg_controldata,
(cluster_data_directory $version, $cluster));
[/B]707==> restore_exec;
708: return (undef, undef) unless defined $result;
709: while (<CTRL>) {
710: if (/^LC_CTYPE\W*(\S+)\s*$/) {
711: $lc_ctype = $1;
712 } elsif (/^LC_COLLATE\W*(\S+)\s*$/) {
713: $lc_collate = $1;
the problem is in line 706 -- open(filehandle, mode, file) -- the mode
is "-|" meaning that "file" is really a command that generates output
that's piping to our perl process... but $pg_controldata isn't playing
nice:
/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_controldata /var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main
pg_controldata: could not open file
"/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/global/pg_control" for reading: No such
file or directory
therein lies the rub. suggestions are welcome!
===
also, if i 'cheat' and manually inject $lc_type = 'C' around line 709,
then the result is only slightly different:
"""
The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/postmaster: could not find the database system
Expected to find it in the directory "/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main",
but could not open file
"/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/global/pg_control": No such file or
directory
"""
there *is* a pg_control.gz file there, which contains "[<digit>] <digits>"...?
ideas?
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