From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | "Evan D(dot) Hoffman" <evandhoffman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Postgresql Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade: "pg_ctl failed to start the new server" |
Date: | 2012-06-14 02:26:55 |
Message-ID: | 20120614022655.GH4418@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:19:41AM -0400, Evan D. Hoffman wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade Postgres 9.0 to 9.1 with pg_upgrade. Both
> versions are installed from the PGDG Yum repo:
>
> -bash-4.1$ /usr/pgsql-9.0/bin/postgres -V
> postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.0.8
> -bash-4.1$ /usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/postgres -V
> postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.1.4
>
> I can successfully start and connect to both 9.0 and 9.1. When I run
> pg_upgrade, it fails with the error "pg_ctl failed to start the new
> server," however it apparently does start the new server (output
> below). Any ideas? This is a freshly installed CentOS 6.2 machine
> with the 9.0 DB copied over from another machine via streaming
> replication (which I have since ended and the server is now
> standalone).
Have you looked at the logs from pg_upgrade? Does "pg_ctl -w start"
work? My guess is that the -w (wait) is failing for some reason. We
did improve the -w handling in PG 9.1 so I didn't think there were any
failure cases, but you might have found a new one.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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