Re: postgresql doesn't start

On 10/04/2015 02:45 AM, Paolo De Michele wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> thanks a lot
> about your questions
>
> 1. postgresql was installed via apt-get install postgresql -y command
> 2. in /var/run/postgresql/ there is only one file called 9.3-main.pid
> 3. postgres is not running, I did not find nothing with ps command
> 4. I remove the postmaster.pid file and I tried to run postgresql
> manually. this is the result:
>
> # /etc/init.d/postgresql start
> * Starting PostgreSQL 9.3 database server
> The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output.
> ...fail!

Also meant to ask, do you still have the supervisor task running with?:

autostart=true

If so I would suggest changing that to:

autostart=false

while you are troubleshooting this.

>
> I verified in /var/log/postgresql/ and I've not found nothing
>
>

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Adrian Klaver
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