"J S B" <jsbali@gmail.com> writes:
> FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission
> denied
> Can you please tell me what is this all about?
It looks to me like you have, or had, another postmaster running under a
different userid. Perhaps you should back up to the beginning and tell
us what you've been doing with this installation.
regards, tom lane