Re: invalid data in PID file

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "J S B" <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: invalid data in PID file
Date: 2006-10-11 19:19:04
Message-ID: 14372.1160594344@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"J S B" <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission
> denied

> Can you please tell me what is this all about?

It looks to me like you have, or had, another postmaster running under a
different userid. Perhaps you should back up to the beginning and tell
us what you've been doing with this installation.

regards, tom lane

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