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postgresql-8.3 package

PostgreSQL 8.3 package reinstall/remove

Asked by Paulius Sladkevičius @ hbee

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 32bit. I did mistake, I remove /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/ catalog and now I get error when I want to reinstall or remove PostgreSQL 8.3 package. Thank you.

sudo aptitude -f remove postgresql-8.3
[sudo] password for komsas:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postgresql-8.3
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 14.1MB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 151660 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing postgresql-8.3 ...
 * Stopping PostgreSQL 8.3 database server * Error: /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main is not accessible or does not exist
                                                                         [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql-8.3, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing postgresql-8.3 (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 postgresql-8.3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

Recreate the directory /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main using the following commands:

sudo mkdir /var/lib/postgresql
sudo mkdir /var/lib/postgresql/8.3
sudo mkdir /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main

Then retry removing the package. If it still fails, then you need to first recreate the other directories that aptitude complains about.

Regards,

Mark

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Paulius Sladkevičius @ hbee (komsas) said : 		#2

Hi,

Thanks Mark, all package related with postgresql I reinstall. But now I have problem that after reinstall /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main is empty, how to get back it?

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Paulius Sladkevičius @ hbee (komsas) said : 		#3

I did two things to get back my postgresql:
 - pg_createcluster 8.3 main --start (to restore /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/main dir and others)
 - sudo apt-get --purge remove postgresql-8.3 (and install, get back my init.d script)

I not sure that pg_createcluster command was necessary.

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Paulius Sladkevičius @ hbee (komsas) said : 		#4

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.