Re: Problems With Bad PID and Missing Socket -- UPDATE

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>  I upgraded the distribution on my system and am now having problems
>> opening a local application. /var/log/apache/error.log shows:
>
>   More insight. When I stop the postmaster I see this:
>
> [root@salmo ~]# /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql stop Shutting down PostgreSQL...
> pg_ctl: invalid data in PID file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid"

Wow.  Is this Gentoo by chance?

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