postgres not working on Ubuntu 8.10

I am using an ubuntu 8.10 installation (from linode). I installed postgres and it was working fine. Then it shutdown and would not start again. When I tried to start it again I got a perl error saying that the locales where not set correctly. I fixed that and then it said that no postgres client was installed so I installed psql. Now when I execute /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start I get no output to the logs or the console, it just returns. I will post the last sever lines of the log below. Does anybody know what problem this is and why I started to have it? Thanks,

Josh

Log:

root@(none):~# tail -f -n10 /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.3-main.log

2009-01-21 16:58:29 UTC LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection

2009-01-21 16:58:29 UTC LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC LOG: incomplete startup packet

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC LOG: received fast shutdown request

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC LOG: aborting any active transactions

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC LOG: autovacuum launcher shutting down

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC LOG: shutting down

2009-01-22 11:56:05 UTC LOG: database system is shut down