postgresql upgrade: cannot start postmaster

2004-10-29 Thread debian-throwaway1
I upgraded postgresql from 7.2.1-2woody5 to 7.2.1-2woody6 with apt-get, but experienced some problems getting things working. I've put a redacted log of what I did to fix it at http://pjt33.f2g.net/postgresql_upgrade_log.html - the summary is that after running apt-get upgrade I had to manually

Re: postgresql upgrade: cannot start postmaster

2004-10-29 Thread debian-throwaway1
Replying to myself: previous e-mail archived at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03246.html Digging around, I've tracked down the messages about stopping postgresql to /etc/init.d/postgresql, which is called by the prerm and preinst scripts. The problem would seem to be that /etc