Comment 6 for bug 390748

Hi Martin

this is the bash shell text from your request in comment #2

user@HP-laptop:~$ id postgres
id: postgres: No such user
user@HP-laptop:~$ ls -ld /etc/ssl/private/
drwx--x--- 2 root ssl-cert 4096 2009-07-12 13:23 /etc/ssl/private/
user@HP-laptop:~$ sudo ls -l /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
[sudo] password for user:
-rw-r----- 1 root ssl-cert 887 2009-07-12 13:23 /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
user@HP-laptop:~$

Sorry to take so long to reply, I thought I had some how stuffed up the config so I used Synaptic to do a complete removal including config files and reinstall to hopefully start again - which got me nowhere, so I gave up.

I started a fresh install on a different box and followed some instructions I found via QGIS for setting up postgres for QGIS and it worked on the other machine, so I just gave up on this one.

I don't know if the above is any use to you or not as I have now un-installed the postgresql server packages. Note that I had originally installed the postgis geographic location extentions package to create a database for QGIS, if that makes any difference.

Thank you for your time, I greatly appreciate your efforts.

Jim