Postgresql will not start
Using alpine 3.0_rc3 (both with and without an upgrade from the repositories), postgresql refuses to start:
localhost:~# apk add postgresql
(1/1) Installing postgresql (9.3.4-r0)
Executing busybox-1.22.1-r5.trigger
OK: 52 MiB in 50 packages
localhost:~# /etc/init.d/postgresql setup
* Creating a new PostgreSQL database cluster …
mv /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data/* /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/tmp
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
“postgres”.
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale “C.UTF-8”.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to “UTF8”.
The default text search configuration will be set to “english”.
Data page checksums are disabled.
fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data …
ok
creating subdirectories … ok
selecting default max_connections … 100
selecting default shared_buffers … 128MB
creating configuration files … ok
creating template1 database in /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data/base/1 …
ok
initializing pg_authid … ok
initializing dependencies … ok
creating system views … ok
loading system objects’ descriptions … ok
creating collations … sh: locale: not found
ok
No usable system locales were found.
Use the option “—debug” to see details.
creating conversions … ok
creating dictionaries … ok
setting privileges on built-in objects … ok
creating information schema … ok
loading PL/pgSQL server-side language … ok
vacuuming database template1 … ok
copying template1 to template0 … ok
copying template1 to postgres … ok
syncing data to disk … ok
WARNING: enabling “trust” authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or
—auth-local and —auth-host, the next time you run initdb.
Success.
[ ok ]
localhost:~# /etc/init.d/postgresql start
* Caching service dependencies … [ ok ]
* Starting PostgreSQL …
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/pg_ctl’
* Check the log for a possible explanation of the above error.
* /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data/postmaster.log [ !! ]
* ERROR: postgresql failed to start
localhost:~# cat /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data/postmaster.log
invalid option — -
Try “postgres —help” for more information.
localhost:~#
I also tried starting the server manually, and got the same basic
outcome:
localhost:/$ /usr/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -t 10 -l
/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data/postmaster.log -D
/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data -o
—data-directory=/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/data
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.
(from redmine: issue id 2984, created on 2014-05-30, closed on 2014-06-26)
- Changesets:
- Revision 8f9cc28a by Timo Teräs on 2014-06-04T13:52:42Z:
main/postgresql: remove invalid and redundant options from init.d
makes postgres start again. fixes #2984