Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622469FB321 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:35:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 90368-03 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:35:32 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CBE9FB84F for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:35:43 -0400 (AST) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r28so371252nza for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:35:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=p5FFukF+5avi7aSPzf/FtrIT5qP3VjSghkhZxapQJaNu+q6rigj6A76orLbarhAtZnEuXGC4bjRVuwRdnsOM/nv2DGAEotVz9F0F2lgC3qgqTihQmempNdcLR0bmrwZwwUC3aKM7kO6u8Muerto7IXv/mWcIZ6wtMxJR/hB4DYw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eoGILNmWmOD48Gqwdh9UOfhpWHcohvp9J2sG6fbl+uo0yEQPbwBDeoHUNRQxhVA7kVV/h0FsBmHe5msDZlbRTOOv7EWYHKcEiZMXOe3n1I+/5g8VulKXOAJc8ZvEUN7RLgnBfUwiZJnKFL5++pOEBjrKiNQl82sNYV0EKIVjWQ4= Received: by 10.65.114.11 with SMTP id r11mr8289023qbm.1172496941573; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:35:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ( [200.81.9.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 38sm12130179nza.2007.02.26.05.35.37; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:35:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45E2E226.1090904@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:35:34 -0300 From: Rodrigo Gonzalez User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gauri Kanekar CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Server Startup Error References: <7e4ba9550702260522t3e2815em8136be53da6aa3ec@mail.gmail.com> <45E2E029.8030200@gmail.com> <7e4ba9550702260528g17e38092j3b2d14672b0ceea7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7e4ba9550702260528g17e38092j3b2d14672b0ceea7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200702/290 X-Sequence-Number: 23344 Gauri Kanekar wrote: > Thanks, > But how to start postgres server > > > On 2/26/07, *Rodrigo Gonzalez* > wrote: > > Gauri Kanekar wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Machine was down due to some hardware problem. > > > > After then when i issue this command /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -l > > its giving me the following error > > > > psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory > > Is the server running locally and accepting > > connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > > > > Can anybody tell me what going wrong?? > > > > -- > > Regards > > Gauri > > Postgres is not running, start it and try again > > > > > -- > Regards > Gauri which OS? compiled from source? did you install from package?