Thank you, this was it.
Otis
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>
> From: tulasi
> Sent: 5/6/2002 12:02:45 AM
> To: otisg@iVillage.com
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Cannot (re)start PostgreSQL
>
>
> hi,
> Just remove the postmaster.pid file from your data and then try to restart postgresql server...
> hope this can work out for you.
> all the best
> Tulasi
> otisg wrote: Hello,
>
> A few minutes ago I had to cold reboot my machine (Red Hat 7.2) that was running PostgreSQL 7.2, as
> it (the machine) was hung (which is another PostgreSQL story that I'll explain separately).
>
> My attempt:
> [root@linux2 root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql restart
> Stopping postgresql service: [FAILED]
> Starting postgresql service: [FAILED]
>
> The only thing I see in /var/log/messages:
> May 5 23:19:26 localhost postgresql: Starting postgresql service: failed
>
> I cannot figure out what is causing this problem.
> These are logging-related lines from my ~postgres/data/postgresql.conf file:
>
> log_connections = true
> syslog = 2 # range 0-2
>
>
> What else can I do to figure out what is going on?
> Because of how I had to reboot the machine it is possible that something got corrupted, but I can't
> find a way to figure out whether that is the problem, and if it is, how to fix it (I just searched
> the 7.2.1 docs and this list's archives and couldn't find anything related to corruption and repair).
>
> Is there a way to get a more verbose error message from PostgreSQL that will tell me why I can't
> start the DB?
>
> Thank you,
> Otis
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