On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:34 -0500, Ardian Xharra wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a database installed on Intel Xeon (Dell) and running on
> postgreSQL 8.1.
> And the database couldn't start. Here is the logfile of what happend:
>
> 2006-11-14 00:28:38 PANIC: could not write to log file 6, segment 239
> at offset 6430720, length 16384: Permission denied
>
Are you running PostgreSQL as a user other than the one that owns the
data directory? Did the filesystem somehow get mounted in RO mode?
Regards,
Jeff Davis