> PGSTAT tries to bind to 127.0.0.1 to create a loopback UDP path for
> passing statistics data. Not clear why this would fail unless you
> have some network filtering software in there to prevent it. Without
> more info about your platform, network config, etc, there's little
> more I can say...
Bad luser no donut.
Seems when i configured this box in /etc/hosts I put
127.0.0.1 computername localhost (instead of)
127.0.0.1 localhost computername
Which made 'auto lo' fail in my interfaces file which during debugging got commented out. Subsequently when the
machinewas rebooted a while back trouble shooting hardware issues lo never restarted. Networking has been all well and
dandyto the net, but postgres actually wanted localhost. So problem solved.
aegagrus:/etc/network# ps ax |grep postgres
8288 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster
8289 pts/0 S 0:00 postgres: stats buffer process
8292 pts/0 S 0:00 postgres: stats collector process
aegagrus:/etc/network#
Thank you very much for responding to what was a dumb question.
-Derek