Re: Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets

"Daniel J. Summers" <daniel(dot)lists(at)djs-consulting(dot)com> writes:
> I did an "strace -o strace.txt /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" *, but
> the only "socket" that was in it was in the error message. I modified
> /usr/share/postgresql-common/init.d-functions to add strace to the
> pg_ctlcluster call **, and there are lots of references to "socket", but
> it doesn't look like it's having much success.

Just for the record, this wouldn't have yielded anything interesting
because you didn't use -f, so the tracing wouldn't have followed the
actions of anything but the directly invoked script. What we need to
see is strace of the postmaster itself.

regards, tom lane