On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Bart Lateur
<bla@taxistop.be> wrote:
CentOS 5.x (now 5.8), Postgres 8.4.something. Postgres had been up and running for over a year now.
After an update on the system, and adding mod_ssl in Apache (is this related? No idea.), Postgres no longer starts up. It just fails silently. “pgstartup.log” contains only one single line:
runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
I have no idea where to begin to debug this; Google only produces a handful of results about this error message in relation to Postgres. None fix my problem.
Whatever I do, everything just fails quietly. As far as I can see, the configuration files haven’t changed.
Help? Where do I even begin to debug this? Could a complete reinstall of Postgres and restoration of the databases help?
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Bart.
Could you please, try to start the cluster using "pg_ctl" utility:
Syntax: <Installation Directory>/bin/pg_ctl -D <Data Directory> start
Ex:- /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/data start