> I imagine the configuration was mangled somewhere down the line.
> Perhaps I need to reinstall Ubuntu, though it's not something I look
> forward to (I already tried uninstalling Postgres and wiping away all
> references to it prior to my last install).
>
> Thanks for taking a look!
>
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> myuser@mycomputer:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 status
> Password:
> Version Cluster Port Status Owner Data
> directory Log file
This shows that you do not have a cluster.
try running
sudo pg_createcluster 8.1 main
> myuser@mycomputer:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 start -D /usr/
> local/pgsql/data
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 start
is all you should need. Give that a try first, and the confirm you actually
have a cluster with
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 status
> myuser@mycomputer:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 status
> Version Cluster Port Status Owner Data
> directory Log file
> myuser@mycomputer:~$ ls -a /var/log/postgresql
> . ..
That seems strange. It appears that your installation is missing something.
What do you get from :
dpkg -l *postgresql*
Andy