“cannot write to log file pg_upgrade_internal.log” when upgrading from Postgresql 9.1 to 9.3

Question

I keep on getting the above error whenever I run the following command via a postgres user.

/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade \\
   -b /usr/lib/postgres         


        

Answer 1

Make sure that you run this command from a directory that is writable by the postgres user, like /tmp or /var/lib/postgresql:

$ cd /tmp
$ usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade ...