The install was actually done with apt-get. But you're right, Mathias - the problem was a result of ubuntu-vm-builder....
I ran it again and noticed what the real problem was. By default ubuntu-vm-builder doesn't set up a locale other than "C". When I log in via ssh, LANG=en_US.UTF-8 is picked up from my environment. postgresql doesn't like that outage: Setting up postgresql-8.3 (8.3.1-1) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). Error: The locale requested by the environment is invalid. Error: could not create default cluster. Please create it manually with pg_createcluster 8.3 main --start I'll have to get in the habit of saving the output of big installs like this so I can dig out those error messages. (Or maybe apt-get could do that by default?) And I'll think about how ubuntu-vm-builder can be improved so this doesn't happen.... -- Postgresql 8.3 not responding https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193696 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs