Mr. Elphick: OK. Here is what I got.
hesco@biko:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/psqlSo it appears that instead of copying the symbolic link, it copied instead pg_wrapper, renaming it in the new directory as psql.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 10 16:24 /usr/bin/psql -> pg_wrapper
hesco@biko:~$ ls -al /usr/bin/pg_w*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6584 Sep 11 04:30 /usr/bin/pg_wrapper
hesco@biko:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6584 Nov 21 20:57 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql
hesco@biko:~$ /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql -U hesco template1
hangs, and spins the hard drive interminably. So I open a second shell and do:
hesco@biko:~$ su postgres Password: postgres@biko:/home/hesco$ /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql No database specified postgres@biko:/home/hesco$ /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql template1
and that invocation also hangs, and spins the hard drive interminably. then running top in a third shell shows me:
when I Control-C each of those first two shells, the hard drive stops spinning.512 hesco 10 0 320 320 268 S 2.1 0.5 0:03 psql 1978 postgres 10 0 320 320 268 S 2.1 0.5 0:00 psql
Then I do the following:
postgres@biko:/home/hesco$ su
Password:
biko:/home/hesco# apt-get remove postgresql-client
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
postgresql postgresql-client
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4530kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: conflicting diversions involving `/Package: mysql-common' or `/Status: ins
tall ok installed'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
biko:/home/hesco# apt-get install postgresql-client
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, postgresql-client is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
biko:/home/hesco#
I do not know what to make of these error messages:
dpkg: conflicting diversions involving `/Package: mysql-common' or `/Status: ins
tall ok installed'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
-- Hugh Esco At 06:37 PM 11/23/02 +0000, you wrote:
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 15:13, Hugh Esco wrote: > Problem solved! > > When using pg_ctl to make the postmaster see a pg_hba.conf file that had > been edited while the database server was running, I got a message that it > looked for, but did not find, the psql script in the > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin directory. So I copied this file from /usr/bin > (where the apt-get install postgresql had installed it) to > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin. And while I am still having trouble invoking a > psql command line prompt, I am now getting postmaster starting up > automatically at boot up, exactly as /etc/rc#.d says it should. I'm not surprised you're having trouble getting a command line, since you appear to have overwritten the real psql in /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql with the symbolic link /usr/bin/psql, which is a link to /usr/bin/pg_wrapper, which tries to call /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql. I also don't see how this can make any difference to how postmaster starts up, since postmaster does not use psql at all. > Is there some appropriate place I should report this problem to the folks > who build and maintain the Debian package for postgresql, so this matter > can be handled in future distributions? Debian bug reports in general go to bugs.debian.org. The proper way to report them is to use reportbug (install the reportbug package). Debian PostgreSQL bug reports will come to me, so you needn't bother in this particular case. You never did answer the question whether you could run /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql directly. psql is part of the postgresql-client package, not postgresql. It seems to me you should reinstall postgresql-client, and then we can take another look at your situation. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth." Psalms 145:18
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