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To: "Daniel J. Summers" <daniel.lists@djs-consulting.com>
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Daniel J. Summers" <daniel.lists@djs-consulting.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Daniel J. Summers" <daniel.lists@djs-consulting.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