DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:49 AM, C M Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Wed 14 March 2012 10:04:49 am Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at modizzle.net> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at modizzle.net> wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com>
>> >> >
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> > How many boxes does this happen on?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 8 and counting.  basically every single 11.10 system I've installed.
>> >> >
>> >> > Are they the same machines, or different manufacturers, etc? I don't
>> >> > have pg
>> >> > installed here, or I'd try it. I will if no solution is found soon.
>> >>
>> >> they're not identical.  some are actually installed inside of KVM,
>> >> others are on real HW.
>> >
>> > and you are using ubuntu packages, not from other sources?
>>
>> right, i'm only using official ubuntu packages.  although i'm about
>> ready to rip out their official postgresql and use someone elses, as I
>> really need to get this working.
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>
> Lonni,
>
> According to that bug report the fix was in version 123, as in 9.1+123, but I
> see that Ubuntu v11.10 (oneiric) ships with 9.1+122. Ubuntu oneiric-updates
> ships with 9.1+122ubuntu1. It looks like you will have to download the version
> of postgresql that ships with Ubuntu Precise, 9.1+129 to get the fix.

yea, i gave up on ubuntu's mess, and switched over to using the
package from here:
https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/postgresql

confirmed that it fixed the problem.