From: Major Services <services.major@gmail.com>
To: Paul Anderson <paul.a@pnlassociates.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Restart failed with 'service postgresql restart'
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:58:13 +0530
Message-ID: <375c2da1003022028t7a6949f6pa881ff03ce0bb585@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8D42DA.7010801@pnlassociates.com>
References: <375c2da1003020843w6c46d204n6582926726b1fd50@mail.gmail.com>
<4B8D42DA.7010801@pnlassociates.com>
Where to look for postmaster.pid?
It is not in the data directory. There is one file postmaster.opts there.
Should I try running 'pg_ctl start -l logfile' ?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Paul Anderson <paul.a@pnlassociates.com> wrote:
> After verifying that the postmaster was not running you did remove the
> postmaster.pid file, right?
>
> FATAL: lock file "postmaster.pid"already exists
>
>
> On 3/2/10 11:43 AM, Major Services wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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