Postgresql crashed upon running update-manager.

[Michael Buczynski]

Binary package hint: postgresql-8.4

Note - First time submitter!
 lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

 apt-cache policy postgresql
postgresql:
  Installed: 8.4.4-0ubuntu10.04
  Candidate: 8.4.4-0ubuntu10.04
  Version table:
 *** 8.4.4-0ubuntu10.04 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-proposed/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8.4.3-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

/etc/init.d# ./postgresql-8.4 status
Running clusters: (??? I'm not running in a cluster -- single pc \ home machine!)
#####:/etc/init.d# ./postgresql-8.4 start
 * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
2010-05-20 22:57:19 CDT LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot assign requested address
2010-05-20 22:57:19 CDT HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
2010-05-20 22:57:19 CDT WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost"
2010-05-20 22:57:19 CDT FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
           [fail]

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: postgresql 8.4.4-0ubuntu10.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 20 22:50:59 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: postgresql-8.4

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago