Re: postgres startup failure

Matt Bartolome <mattxbart@gmail.com> writes:
> Setting the breakpoint (b exit) got me a little farther...

> DEBUG:  invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32595968)
> DEBUG:  max_safe_fds = 980, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 10
> Detaching after fork from child process 19066.
> Detaching after fork from child process 19067.

> Breakpoint 1, 0x0046efb6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0046efb6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x082286de in proc_exit ()
> #2  0x0820bbdf in ?? ()
> #3  0x0820eb63 in ?? ()
> #4  <signal handler called>
> #5  0x003ec424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #6  0x0051433d in ___newselect_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #7  0x0820d489 in ?? ()
> #8  0x08210489 in PostmasterMain ()
> #9  0x081b92df in main ()

Hmm.  Not tremendously helpful --- if you were to install the
appropriate postgresql-debuginfo RPM, the stack trace might get
more useful.  However, this does appear to confirm the theory
that postmaster.c is doing proc_exit(1), and I don't see any code
paths in there where there isn't a error message logged first.
So right now I'm wondering whether you're not failing to notice
a relevant log message(s).  You've evidently managed to launch
the syslogger --- where is it configured to write the postmaster
log?

            regards, tom lane