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From: Tank.zhang <6220104@qq.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Myint <myint@oneempower.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding postgres 9.1 with Redhat Linux
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 08:32:25 +0800
Message-ID: <tencent_11B9CDD7506CB3755C668AB7@qq.com> (raw)

hi:
 " HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait afew seconds and retry."
 please check system port  5432  runing?
   
  
  
  ------------------ Original ------------------
  From:  "Scott Marlowe"<scott.marlowe@gmail.com>;
 Date:  Sat, Dec 3, 2011 01:13 AM
 To:  "Myint"<myint@oneempower.com>; 
 Cc:  "pgsql-admin"<pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>; 
 Subject:  Re: [ADMIN] Regarding postgres 9.1 with Redhat Linux

  
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Myint <myint@oneempower.com> wrote:
> Dear admin,
>
>
>
>   We have installed postgres 9.1 rpm package to red hat
> Linux  2.6.18- x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. After we setup and install
> database we can create data folder on /app/postgres/oe. But when we try to
> start up the database as  ./pg_ctl -D /app/postgres/oe start. It was giving
> the following error. Could you please advise how to solve this problem? Or
> should we back up data and re-install everything from begin? The error we
> received as following.
>
>
>
> LOG:  could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use
>
> HINT:  Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a
> few seconds and retry.
>
> WARNING:  could not create listen socket for "localhost"
>
> FATAL:  could not create any TCP/IP sockets

Sounds like you've already got an old version of pg installed.  Either
change the 9.1 install to use a different port, shut down or uninstall
the old version.  What does "ps ax|grep postgres" say about other
processes on the machine?

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