Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B8B633C84 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 10:52:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79675-10 for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 13:52:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D517633C8D for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 10:52:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o43DqZ1X014338; Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:35 -0400 (EDT) To: Yeb Havinga cc: "Dai, Tino" , "Daniel J. Summers" , "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Ubuntu 10.04 - Cannot Create TCP/IP Sockets In-reply-to: <4BDEC707.1090403@gmail.com> References: <4BDE46F4.4070401@djs-consulting.com> <1CA7FF980DA3824F9A5C31532B7A40DCCDCE01FD@LCXCLMB01.LCDS.LOC.GOV> <4BDEC707.1090403@gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Yeb Havinga message dated "Mon, 03 May 2010 14:52:23 +0200" Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 09:52:35 -0400 Message-ID: <14337.1272894755@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/23 X-Sequence-Number: 34496 Yeb Havinga writes: >> 2010-05-03 03:36:06 UTC LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot assign >> requested address Does it work if you change listen_addresses to '*' or '127.0.0.1' ? >> ..and localhost is resolving... >> root@coolnewserver:~# nslookup localhost nslookup isn't a terribly reliable way to check that. Try "dig". regards, tom lane