On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > 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
In fact the other suggestion there, of suppressing the redirect to systemctl, proved helpful. the problem is actually in postgresql- common, in a Perl script. Thanks