Re: install problem

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:49, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 07:16, sol wrote:
> > I've just been trying to install Postgresql 7.2.2 on Debian Sid/Unstable
> > and have been repeatedly failed to do so.
>
> You need to see in more detail what the install script is doing and
> where the failure is.
>
> Add "set -x" as the second line of
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.postinst and then do "dpkg --configure
> postgresql". It should then be a lot easier to see which command in the
> install script is causing the problem.

The actual error was that "su - postgres" was interpreting "-" as the
desired login name. This was a bug in the latest login package, which
has now been fixed. You need to install login 4.0.3-2 or later.

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