messed var directory

[Sven Richter]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 02:25:36 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sven Richter wrote:
> >> afaict, the biggest problem is /var/lib.  That's a hodgepodge of
> >> different permissions.
> >
> > Yep, i needed my postgresql database today, starting it stopped
> > with the following error message:
> >  * Starting PostgreSQL 8.2 database server
> > * could not change directory to "/var/lib/postgresql"
> > pg_controldata: could not open
> > file "/var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main/global/pg_control" for reading:
> > Permission denied
> > Error: Could not parse locale out of pg_controldata output
> >
> > [fail]
> >
> >
> > Any ideas what i could do about it?
>
> Not about this specific app, but "dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*" should
> fix anything that you still have the .deb files for.
As desperate as i am i tried it :-)

But the configuration fails:
invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql-8.2, action "start" failed.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von postgresql-8.2 (--configure):
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
(subprocess post-installation script returned error 1)
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 postgresql-8.2


I tried to set the permissions of the whole postgresql directory
to 0777 but the same failure appears:

Error: Could not parse locale out of pg_controldata output

I think this is the tricky one, maybe the program does not have
the rights to parse something in the console?

Any Ideas?


Greetings
Sven Richter