authentication option not in name=value format: sameuser

Bug #656351 reported by sanjeevranot
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
postgresql-common (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: postgresql-8.4

During installation using the update manager the crash occurred.
There was a previous version of postgresql already installed on my machine

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: postgresql-8.4 8.4.5-0ubuntu10.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 7 20:51:36 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: postgresql-8.4
Title: package postgresql-8.4 8.4.5-0ubuntu10.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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sanjeevranot (sanjeevranot) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

This seems to be a local configuration problem? Did this happen from an upgraded cluster?

2010-10-07 20:51:30 IST LOG: authentication option not in name=value format: sameuser
2010-10-07 20:51:30 IST CONTEXT: line 82 of configuration file "/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf"

Changed in postgresql-8.4 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
summary: - package postgresql-8.4 8.4.5-0ubuntu10.04 failed to install/upgrade:
- subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
- 1
+ authentication option not in name=value format: sameuser
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Confirmed by several duplicates, so I figure this must be a problem with cluster upgrading. Does anyone still have a pg_hba.conf of the older cluster, or can tell me how to reproduce this?

Thanks!

affects: postgresql-8.4 (Ubuntu) → postgresql-common (Ubuntu)
Changed in postgresql-common (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for postgresql-common (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in postgresql-common (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Benjamin Schall (frozenskater) wrote :

I have an old pg_hba.conf file right here.

Changed in postgresql-common (Ubuntu):
status: Expired → Incomplete
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in postgresql-common (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
status: New → Confirmed
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