Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 06:05:42PM +, John Masters wrote: > I've chmod 666 /dev/null and now postgres installs OK. However I > hesitate to go further as this server is on a VPS. Could that be why the > perms were not set properly? I can think of no reason why anyone would provision a

Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread John Masters
On 19:14 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 16:35:44 +, John Masters wrote: > > On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: > > > > I have posted this to the Postgres list also. > > > > > > > > Canno

Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 16:35:44 +, John Masters wrote: > On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: > > > I have posted this to the Postgres list also. > > > > > > Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian pa

Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread John Masters
On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: > > I have posted this to the Postgres list also. > > > > Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. > > At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:

Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: > I have posted this to the Postgres list also. > > Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. > At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- > > pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start > > Doing th

postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread John Masters
I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start Doing this (as root) produces the following output:- Creating new cluster (conf