Re: Unable to run psql on 9.5 after broken 12 remove

Il 03/07/2020 16:51, Adrian Klaver ha scritto:
> On 7/3/20 1:54 AM, Moreno Andreo wrote:
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> Looks like the cluster was not removed from the pgcommon setup. This
> would explain why you can't run psql. By default pgcommon looks for
> the version of psql connected with the most recent version of Postgres
> it knows about, in this case 12. Unfortunately that binary no longer
> exists. You still have psql. Do:
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> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/bin/psql --help
OK, it confirms that 9.5 client is still ok
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> To avoid having to do that try:
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> sudo pg_dropcluster  12 main
This reported a warning

root(at)datastore-1:/home/user# pg_dropcluster 12 main
Warning: corrupted cluster: data directory does not exist

... but it did its job

root(at)datastore-1:/home/user# sudo -u postgres psql
psql (9.5.6)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# \q

Thanks, you saved my day again!

Moreno.

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>> Il 03/07/2020 10:37, Moreno Andreo ha scritto:
>>> I have a production server running pg9.5 seamlessly.
>>> Yesterday I decided to install libpq to have some crypto functions.
>>> Unexpectedly, it installed postgresql 12 and its libpq.
>>> I don't need pg 12, so I decided to remove it.
>>> It did not went well
>>>
>>> root(at)datastore-1:/home/user# apt-get --purge remove
>>> postgresql-client-12
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer
>>> required:
>>>   libuuid-perl
>>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
>>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>>   postgresql-12* postgresql-client-12* postgresql-contrib*
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 89 not upgraded.
>>> 1 not fully installed or removed.
>>> After this operation, 30.9 MB disk space will be freed.
>>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>>> (Reading database ... 32065 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Removing postgresql-contrib (12+215.pgdg80+1) ...
>>> Removing postgresql-12 (12.3-1.pgdg80+1) ...
>>> update-alternatives: using
>>> /usr/share/postgresql/9.5/man/man1/postmaster.1.gz to provide
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/postmaster.1.gz (postmaster.1.gz) in auto mode
>>> Purging configuration files for postgresql-12 (12.3-1.pgdg80+1) ...
>>> Removing postgresql-client-12 (12.3-1.pgdg80+1) ...
>>> update-alternatives: using
>>> /usr/share/postgresql/9.5/man/man1/psql.1.gz to provide
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/psql.1.gz (psql.1.gz) in auto mode
>>> Processing triggers for postgresql-common (215.pgdg80+1) ...
>>> Building PostgreSQL dictionaries from installed myspell/hunspell
>>> packages...
>>> Removing obsolete dictionary files:
>>> Setting up python3.4 (3.4.2-1+deb8u3) ...
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1014
>>>     raise InvalidURL(f"URL can't contain control characters. {url!r} "
>>> ^
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> dpkg: error processing package python3.4 (--configure):
>>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>>> status 1
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  python3.4
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>>
>>> After this, the package is not anymore on the installed list and I'm
>>> not able to issue the psql command:
>>>
>>> root(at)datastore-1:/home/user# sudo -u postgres psql
>>> Error: PostgreSQL version 12 is not installed
>>>
>>> How can I repair this?
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Moreno.
>>>
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