Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh [2005-07-17 9:35 +0100]: >> hardknott:/home/rleigh# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.0 start >> * Starting PostgreSQL 8.0 database server: main >> Use of uninitialized value in -r at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 112. >> The PostgreSQL autovacuum daemon failed to start. Please check the log >> output: >> Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 127. >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at >> /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 127. >> *ror: Could not open log file >> [fail] > > That's odd... /etc/postgresql/8.0/main/autovacuum_log should be > automatically created and point to > /var/log/postgresql/pg_autovacuum-8.0-main.log. Does any of the files > not exist on your system?
Apparently not: $ ls -l /etc/postgresql/8.0/main total 17 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2005-03-31 11:41 log -> /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.0-main.log lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2005-03-31 11:41 pgdata -> /var/lib/postgresql/8.0/main/ -rw-r----- 1 postgres postgres 3191 2005-03-31 11:41 pg_hba.conf -rw-r----- 1 postgres postgres 1460 2005-03-31 11:41 pg_ident.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 11040 2005-03-31 11:41 postgresql.conf $ ls -l /var/log/postgresql total 248 -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 127208 2005-03-31 08:19 autovacuum_log -rw-rw---- 1 postgres postgres 112013 2005-07-20 20:02 postgresql-8.0-main.log > Did you manually remove the file? No. I've not touched anything since I initially installed it. I initially built your sources from experimental, and they then got upgraded when it entered unstable. Perhaps something was changed while still in experimental? I can dump the databases, purge and reinstall from scratch if needed. > If the symlink is not present or dangling, no log file will be used. > However, currently I don't check for the presence of the log file when > trying to output the last part of the log if startup fails. OK. Perhaps it needs to be a little more robust here (to cope with people like me who break their systems ;-) ? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]