Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247CE632A1B for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:43:33 -0400 (AST) 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 99830-05 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:43:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660F963294D for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:43:22 -0400 (AST) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so295005ewy.3 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:43:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=0Bs1IPtizdVCHfTjVZzk34HsRvwyz3ukURU/PmmnksA=; b=lF0ZQgoLBciT6gL6I85QX3fDAcBSHfe+gl5BaG/Qhs9ThfgV1XpCa8JkR7OFZ03erh h5/WNB8j2YfFo12B+ml4wcW6qV5IREkYbNq72Q15SLJ+3RbIE3MT7k7MV3/rLiY2OGhW MmgZo4FLjIoQE8RASim9/hwkgR2oI4oopW49M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=Yww0FqVdraUhtQJdH0cyb1xR2ofQTu7s9XlyQk6+1kX2FFbiEpi8Yat7p+ktvifF/A RfZkFc/UQ9UtA6toDZTl6wjDFM6olZggQkA250XP5VSPZw4U6gCgPMypgu2Dpc23U94M jZVyKjE1ZCuvJo4jNduWCq/ixnX4+0vNpEWg0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.158.1 with SMTP id p1mr4086435wek.202.1267548200511; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:43:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:13:20 +0530 Message-ID: <375c2da1003020843w6c46d204n6582926726b1fd50@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Restart failed with 'service postgresql restart' From: Major Services To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Cc: ktm@rice.edu, imartinez@vectorsf.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.11 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_05=-1.11 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201003/14 X-Sequence-Number: 33813 Help me start the server. As I mentioned in an earlier post today (subject: password authentication failed for user postgres), 'service postgresql restart' had stopped the server but *server start failed*. Step wise list of commands to be given would be great! Do I need to login as postgres? Being new to PostgreSQL, am looking for some hand-holding. Thanks Viv