postresql task in ubuntu server edition (hardy) doesn't start the database

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Binary package hint: postgresql

Greetings from your friendly neighborhood QA team.

While testing the hardy server iso image for amd64, 20080318.1 version, following the instructions at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cases/ServerInstall#postgresql-server

I am failing at step 10, where the command

sudo -u postgres psql -l

fails. This seems to be because the database process(es) are not running. All relevant packages seem to be installed.

I have tested this in a KVM/Qemu instance, and I can make the .qemu file available if you want to try it yourself. However, steps the reproduce are in the URL above.

The /etc/init.d/postgresql script does not actually do anything, which is probably why the database doesn't start.

If the problem is that the steps in the test case are wrong, please not that in the wiki.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

i can confirm this as well.

regards
chuck

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

This is a known problem and a fix is been worked on. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.3/+bug/193696/comments/19.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Is this a duplicate of bug 193696, then?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

No, bug 193696 was mostly something else and the comment in question was on a digression.

Without seeing logs, I'm not certain enough that this bug is the same to hijack it and move it over to udev for the known bug there, which would be a pain to undo if it turned out to be something else. However, I've filed bug 204108 for the known udev bug, will make this bug a duplicate of that, and in the event that this turns out to be something else it can easily be unduplicated.