postgres 8.2 doesn't start after ubuntu upgrade

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hello,

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10.  After the OS upgrade I
choose to upgrade software as well (all quite automated in ubuntu). 
Previously I was running postgres 8.2, but now I have postgres 8.3 (and
hopefully 8.2 as well).

I can run 8.3 and see the dbs (the default ones only; not mine) with psql.
 But when I try to start 8.2 nothing happens:

$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start
 * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server
                  [ OK ]
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 stop
 * Stopping PostgreSQL 8.3 database server
                  [ OK ]
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 stop
$

You can see I get no response when trying to start 8.2.  What can I do?

To complicate matters I was using pg_dumpall to daily backup the db and
then used rdiff-backup to keep increments.  For some reason on August 1,
2008 pg_dumpall went from 50MB output (correct) to a few lines (!?).  So I
can't simply restore to 8.3 (the last one is from six months ago :(.  I do
have an image of the hard drive (using partimage) from before the upgrade,
but that would be getting pretty desperate to have to go back there.

Bryan


-- 
Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]

  Powered by Linux