On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I have installed Debian alongside Linux Mint and wish to have > PostgreSQL use the same database. So I have copied the system > configuration files in /etc/postgresql from the Linux Mint partition. > They point to the PostgreSQL data files in /lvhome/postgresql. > > This works in Linux Mint but not in Debian; PostgreSQL does not start. > There is nothing in the logs of either system or PostgreSQL. It works > if I call pg_ctl or if I run postgres directly. > > I put set -x in the init script. When it is run, we see: > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql start > ... > + echo -n Starting postgresql (via systemctl): postgresql.service > Starting postgresql (via systemctl): postgresql.service+ > log_daemon_msg_post Starting postgresql (via systemctl) > postgresql.service > + : > + /bin/systemctl start postgresql.service > + rc=0 > ... > > > There is a long pause at /bin/systemctl, but no error is indicated. > However, the server is not started. > > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script from > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is doing? > If it does log, where does it put the log?
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731862 Near the very end it suggests: strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log -s 2048 -p 1 & systemctl restart postgresql.service Then, after a couple of seconds, fg into the strace process, cancel it, and then see it the strace.log helps. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
