panic: postmaster restart failed

hello all,

tonight, at 4:59 am my db-server crashed once more.
This time, I could still ping the server, however,
I couldn't connect to pgsql or to sshd

So I rebooted and was then able to log onto the server.

Unfortunately, the postmaster didn't start up.

It said in pgsql.log:

postmaster successfully started
LOG:  database system was interrupted being in recovery at 2002-12-23
05:19:10 CET
This probably means that some data blocks are corrupted
and you will have to use the last backup for recovery.
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 6/730584A8
LOG:  redo record is at 6/730584A8; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE
LOG:  next transaction id: 65055127; next oid: 53301088
LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
progress
LOG:  redo starts at 6/730584E8
PANIC:  read of clog file 62, offset 8192 failed: Erfolg
LOG:  startup process (pid 1319) was terminated by signal 6
LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

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so I followed the instruction to recover my last backup, which worked fine.



finally today I will setup a new linux box just to see if it's really a
hardware failure.

have a merry christmas all,

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