Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Hi Martin, So I have deleted the postgres user : (sorry, french output ;) ) jon-debian:/# deluser postgres Suppression de l'utilisateur « postgres »... userdel : erreur lors de la suppression de l'entrée dans /etc/shadow Fait. jon-debian:/# It says that there is an error while deleting the user entry from /etc/shadow ... I don't know where this user came from, but it seems there's something special about it ... Now : jon-debian:/# id postgres uid=116(postgres) gid=116(postgres) groupes=116(postgres) jon-debian:/# So everythings looks Ok. I try to purge postgresql-7.4 packages and reinstall them, and it seems OK. Anyway, I think you can close this bug report now, since it was a problem on my side ... Thanks a lot, Jonathan Martin Pitt a écrit : Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-12-05 9:46 +0100]: Sorry for late reply. Here is the output of 'id postgresql' : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id postgres uid=12966(postgres) gid=0(root) groupes=0(root) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I hope it can help ... It indeed does. It should actually look like uid=116(postgres) gid=116(postgres) Gruppen=116(postgres) i. e. there are several things wrong about your user: * The user ID should be smaller than 1000 to make postgres a system user. * postgres should have its own system group instead of being in group 'root'. This is the cause for your failure. Since I do not believe that adduser --system created this user, I strongly suspect that it existed before installing postgresql-common already. It does not look like a regular user either, though - they must not be in group 'root'. Thus, a quickfix for you would be to do deluser postgres and reinstall postgresql-common and postgresql-7.4. However, please make double sure that you don't need that user for anything else. I can add a check to the postgresql-common package that will make the installation fail with a meaningful message if an invalid postgres user already exists. However, there is not much more I could do about that. Thanks, Martin
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Martin Pitt a écrit : severity 340459 normal retitle 340459 postgresql-common: unspecified problem with postgres user thanks Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-11-23 16:32 +0100]: Error: clusters must not be owned by root dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I still need the output of 'id postgresql', as I asked in my previous reply. Thanks, Martin Hi Martin, Sorry for late reply. Here is the output of 'id postgresql' : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id postgres uid=12966(postgres) gid=0(root) groupes=0(root) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I hope it can help ... Thanks, Jonathan
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-12-05 9:46 +0100]: Sorry for late reply. Here is the output of 'id postgresql' : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id postgres uid=12966(postgres) gid=0(root) groupes=0(root) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I hope it can help ... It indeed does. It should actually look like uid=116(postgres) gid=116(postgres) Gruppen=116(postgres) i. e. there are several things wrong about your user: * The user ID should be smaller than 1000 to make postgres a system user. * postgres should have its own system group instead of being in group 'root'. This is the cause for your failure. Since I do not believe that adduser --system created this user, I strongly suspect that it existed before installing postgresql-common already. It does not look like a regular user either, though - they must not be in group 'root'. Thus, a quickfix for you would be to do deluser postgres and reinstall postgresql-common and postgresql-7.4. However, please make double sure that you don't need that user for anything else. I can add a check to the postgresql-common package that will make the installation fail with a meaningful message if an invalid postgres user already exists. However, there is not much more I could do about that. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
severity 340459 normal retitle 340459 postgresql-common: unspecified problem with postgres user thanks Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-11-23 16:32 +0100]: Error: clusters must not be owned by root dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I still need the output of 'id postgresql', as I asked in my previous reply. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-11-23 17:00 +0100]: Error: clusters must not be owned by root ^ Could you explain how that happened? Thanks, Anand Unfortunely, I don't know ... What are these clusters is it talking about ? A cluster is a set of databases that are managed by one server (postmater). You can have several of them installed. -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Ballet [2005-11-23 16:32 +0100]: Error: clusters must not be owned by root dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-7.4 There seems to be something wrong with your 'postgres' user. What is the output of id postgres ? Martin -- Martin Pitthttp://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Package: postgresql-7.4 Version: 1:7.4.9-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I could not install postgresql-7.4 : === jon-debian:/home/jon# LANGUAGE=en aptitude install postgresql-7.4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: postgresql-7.4 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 3193kB of archives. After unpacking 8049kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main postgresql-7.4 1:7.4.9-2 [3193kB] Fetched 3193kB in 4s (699kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-7.4. (Reading database ... 189203 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking postgresql-7.4 (from .../postgresql-7.4_1%3a7.4.9-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.9-2) ... Error: clusters must not be owned by root dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-7.4 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.9-2) ... Error: clusters must not be owned by root dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql-7.4 jon-debian:/home/jon# === Others postgresql packages are ok to install (-common and -client-7.4) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages postgresql-7.4 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-8GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcomerr21.38-2 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.3.6-5MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpq31:7.4.9-2 PostgreSQL C client library ii libreadline5 5.0-11 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-4 SSL shared libraries ii postgresql-client-7.4 1:7.4.9-2 front-end programs for PostgreSQL ii postgresql-common 34 manager for PostgreSQL database cl ii zlib1g1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime postgresql-7.4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
Anand Kumria a écrit : On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:32:26PM +0100, Jonathan Ballet wrote: Package: postgresql-7.4 Version: 1:7.4.9-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I could not install postgresql-7.4 : === jon-debian:/home/jon# LANGUAGE=en aptitude install postgresql-7.4 Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.9-2) ... Error: clusters must not be owned by root ^ Could you explain how that happened? Thanks, Anand Unfortunely, I don't know ... What are these clusters is it talking about ? Jonathan
Bug#340459: postgresql-7.4: unable to install
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:32:26PM +0100, Jonathan Ballet wrote: Package: postgresql-7.4 Version: 1:7.4.9-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable I could not install postgresql-7.4 : === jon-debian:/home/jon# LANGUAGE=en aptitude install postgresql-7.4 Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.9-2) ... Error: clusters must not be owned by root ^ Could you explain how that happened? Thanks, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, If this goes on -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
