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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
>
>