Kali on AWS - service postgresql start issue

[2bitwannabe]

Hi.

I setup my Kali Instance on AWS (using the marketplace image), I ran

apt-get install kali-linux-full

and I have not been able to start postgresql using

service postgresql start

and I get no cli feedback so I am unable to continue to start metasploit.

Any ideas?

Thanks
2bitwannabe

[dio1911]

Strange...I installed the same Kali AMI and used the kali-linux-full metapackage as well and had no problems starting postgresql as you described. Try the following to check installation of postgresql:

dpkg --get-selections |grep postgresql

You should see the following:
postgresql
postgresql-9.1
postgresql-client-9.1
postgresql-client-common
postgresql-common

If you do not see these try installing with apt-get install postgresql.

I also just took a look at the metapackage with

apt-cache show kali-linux-full |grep Depends

and noticed that postgresql was missing? Not sure why it is not included in the metapackage. But I suspect that is the issue.

dio1911