Hi debianites -- a question for DPKG and APT experts: We're stuck with apt-get and haven't found a way past it yet -- any ideas would be welcome:
Our postgresql-client-7.4 is missing its libpq.so.3 file, which means that pg_controldata can't do its thing, so that anything related to that debian package breaks/kills the whole apt process... meaning that apt-get is broken! (Perhaps we had a blip during the ice storm last month and this file wound up a casualty.) Right now we aren't able to apt-get upgrade (or install or remove) at all... And dselect hasn't been able to fix it either. :( Is there a process where we can move some files around and then let apt-get upgrade the package, and then we can remove the miscreant package completely? Or is there another recommended workaround? === back story: # apt-get upgrade <snip> Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 42030 files and directories currently installed.) Removing postgresql-7.4 ... Stopping PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: mainError: pid file is invalid, please manually kill the stale server process. failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql-7.4, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: main/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_controldata: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object file: 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 while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-7.4 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) postgres v7 is not running (but v8 is): # /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 start Starting PostgreSQL 8.1 database server: main. # ps f `pgrep post` PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 627 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/postmaster 795 ? S 0:00 \_ postgres: writer process 796 ? S 0:00 \_ postgres: stats buffer process 797 ? S 0:00 \_ postgres: stats collector process There's no pidfile for v7 despite what the errors say: # ls -lA /var/run/postgresql/ total 8 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 5 2009-01-28 21:31 8.1-main.pid srwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 0 2009-03-11 14:26 .s.PGSQL.5432= -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 34 2009-03-11 14:26 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock (interesting how the timestamp on the pid file is january 28 even tho the process we just started the process moments ago...?) # locate libpq.so.3 <nothing> # locate libpq.so /usr/lib/libpq.so.4.1 /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 (and there's nothing in lost+found on the partition where /usr/lib is located...) -- will trillich -- http://faq.serensoft.com/ With a burning "yes" around your high priorities you can easily say "no" to things that are urgent but not important. -- S. Covey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
