postgresql keeps starting on its own (disabled from startup)

mvander25 · September 2, 2013, 12:42am

First off, I LOVE webmin/virtualmin, been using it only a week, but I’m hooked. Amazing work!

Only issue has stumped me is postgresql, I have disabled it from startup, no virtual servers are using it. (No virtual servers using the feature PostgreSQL database were found.)

I took it out of the monitor, yet it as soon as I stop it, it starts itself back up again.

I am not sure what else I can do… looking for how to find out where it is starting and how to stop it…

I removed it entirely, but then I got an error on the system information page, so I put it back on.

Thanks!

Mike

Locutus · September 8, 2013, 1:03pm

Postgresql has a tendency to start itself back up (even if disabled in /etc/init) after it has been updated.

Easiest solution: Uninstall the postgresql package and remove its logrotation entry. This works okay (did it on most of my systems) and will not break Virtualmin dependencies.

If you turn off the Postgresql feature in Virtualmin, you also should not get warnings on the system info page.

jimdunn · February 21, 2014, 3:46pm

Locutus,

Could you give a bit of detail on “how to remove postgresql” safely, and “how to remove the log rotation entry”?

Thx! : )

Locutus · February 21, 2014, 6:04pm

On my Ubuntu systems, I just removed the Postgresql related packages with apt. Didn’t remove the log rotation entry, but I guess you can just do that as well.

jimdunn · February 24, 2014, 3:53pm

When I ran “apt-get remove --purge postgresql*” I saw that virtualmin-base was in the list to be removed.

So I stopped.

Locutus · February 24, 2014, 5:30pm

What distro are you using? On my Ubuntus, Virtualmin definitely does not have postgresql as a dependency. When I type your command, I get:

The following packages will be REMOVED: postgresql* postgresql-9.1* postgresql-client-9.1* postgresql-client-common* postgresql-common* postgresql-contrib* postgresql-contrib-9.1* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

jimdunn · February 25, 2014, 4:15pm

I am running Debian 7.4

I get the following:

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: procmail-wrapper usermin-virtual-server-theme webmin-security-updates webmin-virtual-server-theme webmin-virtualmin-awstats webmin-virtualmin-dav webmin-virtualmin-htpasswd webmin-virtualmin-mailman webmin-virtualmin-svn Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: postgresql* postgresql-9.1* postgresql-client* postgresql-client-9.1* postgresql-client-common* postgresql-common* virtualmin-base* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 22.1 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

(full log below)

root# apt-get remove --purge postgres* Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plperl-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pljava’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-pltcl-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-ocaml’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘courier-authpostgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-server-dev-all’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-postgres-copyd’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-7.4’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-ocaml-vxgq8’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-8.0’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-8.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-8.2’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-8.3’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-8.4’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-jdbc-java-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘cl-sql-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-name-server-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-filedump’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘sisu-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘python3-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-debversion’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-prof-2.3.2.1-b0d52’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-ocaml-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libapq-postgresql3.2.0-dbg’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pgpool2’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-ocaml-dev-vxgq8’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libapq-postgresql3.2.0-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-dev-1.8.1-2a1bd’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-prof-2.1.0-3f7e2’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘odbc-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plperl’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libwtdbopostgres-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-autodoc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-prof’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-postgis’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-dbg’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘autopostgresqlbackup’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘gambas3-gb-db-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-preprepare’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-prof-1.8.1-2a1bd’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua-sql-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua5.2-sql-postgres-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-hsql-postgresql-prof’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘perdition-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘courier-authlib-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-prof’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-server-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-dev-2.3.2.1-b0d52’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libgda-5.0-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libapq-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua5.2-sql-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pgfincore’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-server-dev-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-plr’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘ruby-dataobjects-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-client’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘odbc-postgresql-dbg’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘pure-ftpd-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pljava-gcj’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘haskell-hsql-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-contrib-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua-dbi-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-persistent-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-ip4r’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘akonadi-backend-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘kexi-plugin-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-postgis-java’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-prof-0.8.2-39389’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pgmemcache’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-prof’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plpython-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘eekboek-db-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plpython3-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘liblua5.1-sql-postgres-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-hdbc-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-prof-0.1.4.3-57f96’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-hdbc-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘cl-sql-postgresql-socket’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua5.1-dbi-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-prefix’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libapq-postgresql3.2.0’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘aolserver4-nspostgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-prof’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘webmin-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘clisp-module-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua5.1-sql-postgres-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-prof’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-copy-server-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-postgres-srmv22’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-common’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lfc-server-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lfc-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-client-8.3’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘liblua5.1-sql-postgres-2’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pllua’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘freeradius-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-client-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua5.1-dbi-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘gsql-postgresql-engine’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plpython3’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘librdf-storage-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-dev-0.1.4.3-57f96’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libdataobjects-postgres-ruby’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua-dbi-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-dev-0.8.2-39389’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘tntdb-postgresql3’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-pl’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-orafce’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-dev-2.1.0-3f7e2’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-client-common’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-contrib’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua5.1-sql-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘falconpl-dbi-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-plproxy’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pgq3’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘rt4-db-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-gst’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-pgmp’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-server’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-pltcl’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-srm-server-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘spl-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plr’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.0-dbg’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-doc-9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-postgres-srmv1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-postgres-srmv2’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dsyslog-module-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-plsh’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plpython’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘lua-sql-postgres-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgrey’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘haskell-hdbc-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘check-postgres’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-hsql-postgresql-dev’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libdataobjects-postgres-ruby1.9.1’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libghc6-hsql-postgresql-doc’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-jdbc-java’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-postgres-nameserver’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libwtdbopostgres32’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plperl-8.4’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘gnustep-dl2-postgresql-adaptor’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘usermin-postgresql’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘kexi-postgresql-driver’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Note, selecting ‘libdataobjects-postgres-ruby1.8’ for regex ‘postgres*’ Package ‘libapq-postgresql-dev’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘courier-authpostgresql’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-8.4’ is not installed, so not removed Note, selecting ‘postgresql-9.1-plr’ instead of ‘postgresql-plr’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-dev’ instead of ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-dev-1.8.1-2a1bd’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-prof’ instead of ‘libghc-hsql-postgresql-prof-1.8.1-2a1bd’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-dev’ instead of ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-dev-0.8.2-39389’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-prof’ instead of ‘libghc-postgresql-libpq-prof-0.8.2-39389’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-dev’ instead of ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-dev-0.1.4.3-57f96’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-prof’ instead of ‘libghc-postgresql-simple-prof-0.1.4.3-57f96’ Package ‘libghc-persistent-postgresql-dev’ is not installed, so not removed Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-dev’ instead of ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-dev-2.3.2.1-b0d52’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-dev’ instead of ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-dev-2.1.0-3f7e2’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-prof’ instead of ‘libghc-hdbc-postgresql-prof-2.3.2.1-b0d52’ Note, selecting ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-prof’ instead of ‘libghc-haskelldb-hdbc-postgresql-prof-2.1.0-3f7e2’ Package ‘postgresql-8.2’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-8.1’ is not installed, so not removed Note, selecting ‘dpm-copy-server-postgres’ instead of ‘dpm-postgres-copyd’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-name-server-postgres’ instead of ‘dpm-postgres-nameserver’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-server-postgres’ instead of ‘dpm-postgres’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-srm-server-postgres’ instead of ‘dpm-postgres-srmv1’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-srm-server-postgres’ instead of ‘dpm-postgres-srmv2’ Note, selecting ‘dpm-srm-server-postgres’ instead of ‘dpm-postgres-srmv22’ Note, selecting ‘lfc-server-postgres’ instead of ‘lfc-postgres’ Package ‘postgresql-pl’ is not installed, so not removed Note, selecting ‘lua-dbi-postgresql’ instead of ‘lua5.1-dbi-postgresql’ Note, selecting ‘lua-dbi-postgresql-dev’ instead of ‘lua5.1-dbi-postgresql-dev’ Note, selecting ‘lua-sql-postgres’ instead of ‘lua5.1-sql-postgres’ Note, selecting ‘lua-sql-postgres’ instead of ‘lua5.2-sql-postgres’ Note, selecting ‘lua-sql-postgres-dev’ instead of ‘lua5.1-sql-postgres-dev’ Note, selecting ‘lua-sql-postgres-dev’ instead of ‘lua5.2-sql-postgres-dev’ Note, selecting ‘libpostgresql-ocaml’ instead of ‘libpostgresql-ocaml-vxgq8’ Package ‘postgresql-server’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-postgis-java’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-dev’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-9.0-dbg’ is not installed, so not removed Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plperl-9.1’ instead of ‘postgresql-plperl’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plpython-9.1’ instead of ‘postgresql-plpython’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-plpython3-9.1’ instead of ‘postgresql-plpython3’ Note, selecting ‘postgresql-pltcl-9.1’ instead of ‘postgresql-pltcl’ Package ‘postgresql-7.4’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-8.0’ is not installed, so not removed Note, selecting 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‘sisu-postgresql’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘spl-postgres’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘tntdb-postgresql3’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘libwtdbopostgres-dev’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘libwtdbopostgres32’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-9.1-dbg’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-contrib-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-doc-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-plperl-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-plpython-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-plpython3-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-pltcl-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed Package ‘postgresql-server-dev-9.1’ is not installed, so not removed The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: procmail-wrapper usermin-virtual-server-theme webmin-security-updates webmin-virtual-server-theme webmin-virtualmin-awstats webmin-virtualmin-dav webmin-virtualmin-htpasswd webmin-virtualmin-mailman webmin-virtualmin-svn Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: postgresql* postgresql-9.1* postgresql-client* postgresql-client-9.1* postgresql-client-common* postgresql-common* virtualmin-base* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 22.1 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

Locutus · February 25, 2014, 6:27pm

Okay, seems on Debian there’s indeed an odd dependency of “virtualmin-base” on the postgresql packages that doesn’t exist on Ubuntu. The VIrtualmin team hopefully can say something about this.

tpnsolutions · February 26, 2014, 6:49am

Hi,

Is there not a way to tell Debian to ignore dependencies when removing a package?

In CentOS you can, and technically because Virtualmin doesn’t rely on PostgreSQL you should be able to remove the packages without issue.


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scotwnw · March 14, 2014, 1:52am

Thought the same for mine. Postgresql shows running in bootup-shutdown. But under webmin > servers > postgresql it says not running. I manually stop it by clicking the postgresql link in bootup-shutdown, then refresh the bootup-shutdown and it still shows running. But never shows running in the actual webmin > servers > postgresql.

Assuming its a bug that just says yes its running in bootup-shutdown. But its not actually running as far as I can find.