Have you re-booted the machine?
>
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> Subject: PostgreSQL - Desparate!
> Pardon the intrusion, but I have a dilemma which I cannot find
> the answer to, after searching the newsgroups, documentation,
> and mailing lists -- My postmaster will not start.
>
> Below is a message I've posted in several newsgroups. If you
> could make ANY suggestions on getting postmaster to work,
> I would appreciated it greatly.
>
> -Thanks
>
> -------------------------
> whenever I attempt to start the postmaster, I get the
> following error:
>
> FindBackend: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
> FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() failed: errno=13
> Is another postmaster already running on that port?
> If not, remove socket node (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.<portnr>)and retry.
>
> I'ts been working fine for several weeks until recently. There are
> no files in /tmp relating to postgreSQL. The port I'm using is not in
> use by another process, determined with the ps auxw|grep postma
> command, and also, fuser -vun tcp 5432.
>
> Here's the command I'm using to start postmaster:
> nohup /usr/bin/postmaster -i -B 256 -p 5432 -d -D /var/lib/pgsql
> >/home/postgres/pgsql.log 2>/home/postgres/pgsql.err &
>
> I'm using postgreSQL 6.3.2 under RedHat Linux 5.1.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Thanks
>
>
>
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