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PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:42 am
by gshergill
Hi Nagios Community and Support.

I received an error during installation.

The following is the install.log;

http://pastebin.com/peip1rSR

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:50 am
by gshergill
Please note that it mentioned the issue was with the file;

3-dbservers

I can post the file if required.

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:49 am
by scottwilkerson
Can you run

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ls -l /etc/nsswitch.conf
If the permissions aren't 644 then run

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chmod 644 /etc/nsswitch.conf

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:05 am
by gshergill
Hi scottwilkerson,

Thanks for the reply.

I ran the command with the following result;

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ls -l /etc/nsswitch.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1688 May  4  2010 /etc/nsswitch.conf
I believe that is already on 644, but I ran chmod just in case and nothing changed so I assume it was already set to 644.

I then ran the install again;

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cd /tmp/nagiosxi
./fullinstall
And the same error appeared;

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Running './3-dbservers'...
PostgresQL installed OK - continuing...
Initializing PostgresQL...
Starting PostgresQL...
Starting postgresql service:                               [FAILED]
ERROR: Could not start PostgresQL - exiting.
RESULT=1

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INSTALLATION ERROR!
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Installation step failed - exiting.
Any further tests/solutions please?

Thank you for your time

Kind Regards,

gshergill

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:21 am
by scottwilkerson
Was this a clean minimal install or was PostgresQL installed before you began the Nagios XI install?

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:22 am
by yancy
gshergill,

Also, are you able to start the service manually?

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service postgresql start
Regards,

-Yancy

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:24 am
by gshergill
Hi guys.

This was a completely clean install - I've just installed CentOS on another VM and still the same error.

Starting PostgreSQL manually results in a fail as well;

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service postgresql start
Starting postgresql service:                               [FAILED]
Kind Regards,

gshergill

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:28 am
by yancy
gshergill,

Which version of CentOS?

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cat /etc/*release
Regards,

-Yancy

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:33 am
by gshergill
Hi yancy,

It's the latest version of CentOS;
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
This is a 32bit system, I read somewhere that CentOS 6.x 32 bit is recommended.

Kind Regards,

gshergill

Re: PostgreSQL install failure - Please help

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:53 am
by yancy
gshergill,

Can you restore the security context of nsswitch.conf and test starting the service again.

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restorecon /etc/nsswitch.conf

Regards,

-Yancy