Re: [Gnumed-devel] Postgres 8.4.4-1 (Enterprise db) problems -- system hosed?

[Dave Cramer]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Sebastian Hilbert
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 29 Juni 2010, 22:27:29 schrieb Jim Busser:
>> On 2010-06-29, at 2:39 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> > OS X it uses a completely different mechanism.
>> > The best way to install pg on a mac is using the source and building
>> > it. The start script should be in /Library/StartupItems
>>
>> Thanks, I have gotten rid of
>>       /Library/PostgreSQL8/data/pg_hba.conf
>> and kept
>>       /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/data/pg_hba.conf
>>
> I had the same situation and remove the complete folder.
>
>> but as to /Library/StartupItems I have no such directory, and in
>> /System/Library/StartupItems there is only \vpnagentd
>>
>> and there is nothing for me to choose in Apple > System Preferences >
>> Accounts > Login items, and the command "psql" gives "command not found",
>> so I wonder whether the enterprisedb failed to install needed scripts?
>
> This is not out of the world. If you want to clean up completely do this
>
> http://forums.enterprisedb.com/posts/list/1437.page
> post by Sachin_S
>
>> Despite no StartupItems, the command
>>
>>       sudo SystemStarter start PostgreSQL
>>
>> gave me the following
>>
>>
>> <verbatim>
>> sudo: cannot get working directory
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory Starting PostgreSQL database
>> server
>> job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access parent directories: No such file or directory shell-init: error
>> retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No
>> such file or directory sh: /Library/PostgreSQL8/bin/pg_ctl: No such file
>> or directory
>> MacBook:log djb$
>> </verbatim>
>>
> I have seen this before. This is a permission problem. In the shell script it
> wants to get some info (cwd = current working directory) and fails because of
> very strange sudo configuration on Apple. I had the same problem with the
> bootstraper. Some create use of cli switches was neccessary.

I think the real problem here is that the directory
/Library/PostgreSQL8 was deleted in the step above.