Stuart, You are a life-saver!
With those two commands inserted into the cloud-init script, the service actually starts and can complete my CREATE command. Thanks! - Lasse On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Stuart Bishop <stu...@stuartbishop.net> wrote: > On 26 October 2015 at 18:21, Lasse Westh-Nielsen <lassewe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I posted to stackoverflow about my problem upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to > > Ubuntu 15.04: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33306475/ubuntu-15-04-postgresql-doesnt-start > > > > Tl;dr: postgresql service does not start properly when installed as a > > package using cloud-init. > > > > And I can't figure out if I am doing something wrong, if the AMI is no > good, > > if the package has problems, ... I reckon I cannot be the first person to > > use Postgres on Ubuntu Vivid, but I have been hammering my head against > the > > wall with this for hours. > > > > Any help greatly appreciated! > > I'd be trying 'pg_ctlcluster --force 9.4 main stop' and > 'pg_ctlcluster 9.4 main start' instead of service start/stop. If it > works, you have narrowed down the problem to systemd and/or the > startup scripts. If it doesn't work, the problem is elsewhere (eg. > some required path like /var/run or /tmp or /var/log/postgresql > doesn't exist or has peculiar permissions). If nothing else, you > should get more informative output rather than systemd hiding it away > somewhere. > > -- > Stuart Bishop <stu...@stuartbishop.net> > http://www.stuartbishop.net/ >
