Fwd: trouble downloading postgres 9.4 for RHEL 6.x

Hello all,

I got past the yum install, ran initdb but running into errors when
starting service. Do you have to login as user postgres to start the
service? THANKS

I am on RHEL 6.5 and don't know the postgres user password.

service postgresql9.4 start
postgresql9.4: unrecognized service
-bash-4.1$ service postgresql start
postgresql: unrecognized service
-bash-4.1$ sudo passwd postgres
[sudo] password for postgres:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for postgres:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for postgres:
sudo: 2 incorrect password attempts
-bash-4.1$ service postgresql-9.4 restart
Stopping postgresql-9.4 service: [ OK ]
Starting postgresql-9.4 service: [FAILED]
-bash-4.1$ vi /var/lib/pgsql/9.4/pgstartup.log

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 10/22/2015 01:05 PM, anj patnaik wrote:
>
>> bash-4.1$ sudo yum install
>>
>> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.4/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/pgdg-redhat94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm
>> Loaded plugins: security
>> Setting up Install Process
>> pgdg-redhat94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm
>> | 5.2 kB 00:00
>> Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-Ni6saZ/pgdg-redhat94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm:
>> pgdg-redhat94-9.4-1.noarch
>> /var/tmp/yum-root-Ni6saZ/pgdg-redhat94-9.4-1.noarch.rpm: does not update
>> installed package.
>> Error: Nothing to do
>>
>
> Looks to me("Loaded plugins: security") there is something monitoring
> downloads on you machine. Given that this is RedHat I would say SELinux.
> Might be why the installer failed. In any case I do not use RedHat so I am
> not much use here. Try what I suggest below and if that does not work I
> would re-post to list with the above as there are people there that know
> more about RedHat then I and will have the knowledge to get the install to
> work.
>
> That is first step. Now go to next step:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
> "
> Once this is done, you can proceed to install and update packages the same
> way as the ones included in the distribution.
>
> yum install postgresql94-server postgresql94-contrib
> service postgresql-9.4 initdb
> chkconfig postgresql-9.4 on "
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Adrian Klaver
>> <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/22/2015 12:03 PM, anj patnaik wrote:
>>
>> bash-4.1$ chmod 755 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run.1
>> bash-4.1$ ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run.1
>> bash-4.1$ sudo ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run.1
>> [sudo] password for apatnaik:
>> Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an
>> incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.
>>
>>
>> Does it work for you? Can you let me know?
>>
>>
>> Yes, it works for me. I am not on RedHat though. At this point just
>> do the yum install, it is the better option anyway.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Adrian Klaver
>> <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
>> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>>
>> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/22/2015 10:03 AM, anj patnaik wrote:
>>
>> Adrian,
>> I am doing same steps as you. And my byte count matches
>> yours.
>> It is a
>> RHEL 6.5 Linux machine. If the byte count matches how
>> can it be
>> incomplete? I am baffled. Thanks for any clues!
>>
>> bash-4.1$ ls -all
>> total 132452
>>
>> -rwxrwxrwx 1 apatnaik oprofile 37659362 Oct 20 20:41
>> postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
>> -rw-r----- 1 apatnaik oprofile 37548416 Oct 22 12:51
>> postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>> bash-4.1$ chmod 755 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>> bash-4.1$ sudo ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>> [sudo] password for apatnaik:
>>
>> Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely
>> due to an
>> incomplete or corrupt downloaded file
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are dead set on using the installer you might try,
>> from
>> command line:
>>
>> wget
>>
>> http://get.enterprisedb.com/postgresql/postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>>
>> See if the direct download does any better.
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
>> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>> <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adrian Klaver
>> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com <mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>