Re: Help me start postmaster on a default installation of PostgreSQL.

Lord Voldemort  wrote:
 
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and I have installed PostgreSQL and JDBC 
> drivers form the repository.
 
What repository do you mean?  Ubuntu's?
 
> I have not changed any default settings.
 
> Command "pg_ctl start" or "postmaster" gives an error about not
> being able to find "postgresql.conf" in the directory specified by
> PGDATA or my home folder if it's blank.
 
If you used Ubuntu's version, shouldn't you be using the `service`
command to control it?  I'm not sure what version comes with 10.10,
but on my older kubuntu machine, it's:
 
sudo service postgresql-8.4 start
 
> Apart from that my installation is working fine. I've already
> created a user for myself and a small trial  database too.
 
Without successfully starting the database server???
 
If the above suggestion doesn't help, please read this and post a
more detailed message:
 
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems
 
It's easier for people to help if your post isn't such a, er,
Riddle....   ;-)
 
-Kevin