105471 – PostgreSQL emerge upgrade kills Postfix

Bug 105471 - PostgreSQL emerge upgrade kills Postfix

Summary: PostgreSQL emerge upgrade kills Postfix

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-09-10 02:54 UTC by Nick Kew
Modified:	2007-09-22 23:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Nick Kew 2005-09-10 02:54:50 UTC

I upgraded PostgreSQL from 7.4.x to 8.0.x, using "emerge postgresql".  
  
When I returned to it, I found postfix was refusing incoming connections.  So  
I tried "postfix stop" at the commandline, whereupon it complained of a  
missing libpq.so.3.  "ldd /usr/sbin/postfix" confirmed  "libpq.so.3  =>  not  
found".  
 
Re-emerging postfix (exactly the same version I already had) fixes it.  But 
that effectlively leaves anyone affected without a mailserver until the 
problem is detected ("where's my mail?"), diagnosed, and fixed! 
 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-10 02:56:32 UTC

That's why we have revdep-rebuild.