Re: Unhelpful initdb error message

From: Bosco Rama <postgres(at)boscorama(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unhelpful initdb error message
Date: 2012-03-06 18:12:50
Message-ID: 4F5653A2.8020200@boscorama.com
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Sry, forgot to add list.

Thom Brown wrote:
>
> I've done that a couple times, but no effect. I think Tom's point
> about a filesystem bug is probably right.

Have you rebooted since this started? There may be a process that is
holding the pid file 'deleted but present' until the process terminates.

If you can't find the process to kill it a reboot would remove all doubt.

Just a thought.

Bosco.

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