Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ACF49FB1F5 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:24:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 62422-02 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 04:24:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:17:42.127953 by SQLgrey- Received: from svr4.postgresql.org (svr4.postgresql.org [66.98.251.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6339FB3DB for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:24:03 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.3 Received: from outbound1.internet-mail-service.net (outbound1.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.192]) by svr4.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9145AF9AC for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 04:06:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by outbound.internet-mail-service.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E4A349797 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.109] (adsl-71-135-172-180.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.135.172.180]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9346BNM006467 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bryce1@obviously.com) Message-ID: <4521E1AF.7050708@obviously.com> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:06:07 -0700 From: Bryce Nesbitt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: LOG: logger shutting down Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200610/11 X-Sequence-Number: 26400 My postmaster won't start. This is on a Fedora Core fc5 box, new and clean. It's postgres 8.1.4. All I get is "LOG: logger shutting down" in the pgstartup.log. I've checked for permission errors. At the relevant moment I get: # sh -x /etc/init.d/postgresql start ... ++ cat /var/lib/pgsql/data/PG_VERSION + '[' x8.1 '!=' x8.1 ']' + echo -n 'Starting postgresql service: ' Starting postgresql service: + echo -n 'City CarShare Hacking' + runuser -l postgres -c '/usr/bin/postmaster -p '\''5432'\'' -D '\''/var/lib/pgsql/data'\'' &' + sleep 2 LOG: logger shutting down ++ pidof -s /usr/bin/postmaster