RV: Problem at install / uninstall postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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font-family:Arial">Hello!</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">I’m installing postgresql in a O.S. Linux Ubuntu 6.06 and I have the next printout at
installationprocess:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.12-3) ...</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Error: cluster configuration already exists</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:
1">            </span>I can’t find information about how I can solve the problem at Internet and I can
install/uninstallanythings.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">root@estigio:/tmp# aptitude install postgresql</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Reading</span></font><fontface="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> package lists... Done</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Building dependency tree... Done</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Reading</span></font><fontface="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> extended state information</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Initializing package states... Done</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Building tag database... Done</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
used.</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Writing extended state information... Done</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.12-3) ...</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Error: cluster configuration already exists</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure):</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>subprocess post-installation
scriptreturned error exit status 1</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
postgresql:</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql depends on
postgresql-7.4;however:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Package postgresql-7.4 is not
configuredyet.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg</span></font></span><fontface="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">: error processing postgresql (--configure):</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
color="navy"face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">…</span></font><fontface="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"></span></font></span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontcolor="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><span
class="GramE"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">postgresql-pltcl-7.4</span></font></span><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> depends on postgresql-7.4; however:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Package postgresql-7.4 is not
configuredyet.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg</span></font></span><fontface="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; 
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">: error processing postgresql-pltcl-7.4 (--configure):</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>dependency problems - leaving
unconfigured</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Errors were encountered while processing:</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-7.4</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-plperl-7.4</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-plpython-7.4</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-pltcl-7.4</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(1)</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">A package failed to install.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>Tryingto recover:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Setting up postgresql-7.4 (7.4.12-3) ...</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Error: cluster configuration already exists</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure):</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>subprocess post-installation
scriptreturned error exit status 1</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
postgresql-pltcl-7.4:</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-pltcl-7.4 depends
onpostgresql-7.4; however:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontcolor="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">…..</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Package postgresql-7.4 is not
configuredyet.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">dpkg: error processing postgresql-plpython-7.4
(--configure):</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>dependency problems - leaving
unconfigured</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Errors were encountered while processing:</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-7.4</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-pltcl-7.4</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-plperl-7.4</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>postgresql-plpython-7.4</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
size="2"><spanlang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">root@estigio:/tmp#</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
lang="EN-GB"style="font-size: 
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Thanks, Miguel</span></font></div>