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I'm not familiar with ubuntu (raring), so could someone help me please:

I'm using postgresql 9.1 from apt. It installed the appropriate init script in /etc/init.d/postgresql. I can start the server manually using the script. However, postgres is not started on boot. I issued a update-rc.d postgresql defaults and update-rc.d postgresql enable (as root) but that did not help.

Is there a specific boot log as i could not find anything in syslog? Thanks guys

EDIT2: OK, the problem seems to be a sysvinit vs. upstart problem. If I remove the symlinks in /etc/rcX: 

sudo update-rc.d -f remove postgresql

and add a upstart script to start postgresql, it starts on boot as expected. As the postgresql is from the official apt repo I wonder why it's not working out of the box?

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  • Which Ubuntu version are you running?. IMHO the syntax is sudo update-rc.d postgresql defaults. Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 9:34
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    Please have a look at the /var/log/daemon.log and /var/log/postgresql/ if there is any hind, and provide the last log-lines after reboot of the files. Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 9:39
  • Ubuntu version is a raring 32 cloud image. /var/log/daemon.log does not exist and /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log does not say anything after the last shutdown. It just seems to not start automatically. Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 10:40
  • That update-rc.d should have created symlinks from /etc/init.d/postgresql to /etc/rc2.d/Sxy-postgresql, where xy is a number to arrange the start order. There should be other entries in rc3.d rc5.d. Can you you see these entries? Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 12:15
  • Yes, edited the question to include that Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 12:56

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Are you using server or desktop version.

Normally Postgres work perfectly out the box on ubuntu, but i always use ubuntu server LTS. I think to that issue was caused for some inconsistence on the raring version installer.

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