Hello
Did you try to remove postmaster.pid?
I can reproduce this error to fill null postmaster.pid.
2010-08-16 05:15:36 GMT FATAL: bogus data in lock file "postmaster.pid": ""
And I could also start PostgreSQL to remove postmaster.pid.
(2010/08/14 12:34), Sivaroj Limvipuwat wrote:
> My server isn't starting anymore, it used to work fine.
>
> When I try to start it, it says starting.... done. But it still isn't
> started. If I try connect it gives me this error
>
> could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is
> the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting TCP/IP
> connections on port 5432?
>
> When I checked my event viewer it showed this error
>
> 2010-08-14 03:26:08 GMTFATAL: bogus data in lock file
> "postmaster.pid": ""
>
> Any idea whats going on?