Re: postgresql-ctl systemd failed: permission denied

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
wrote:

> arnaud gaboury wrote:
> > On Fedora 22
> >
> > % pg_ctl -V
> > pg_ctl (PostgreSQL) 9.4.4
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > % systemctl status postgresql.service -l
> > ● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL database server
> > Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/postgresql.service; enabled;
> > vendor preset: disabled)
> > Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2015-07-28 11:50:01
> > CEST; 19min ago
> >
> > Jul 28 11:49:56 poppy systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL database server...
> > Jul 28 11:49:57 poppy postgresql-ctl[307]: FATAL: 42501: could not
> > open log file "/storage/log/postgresql/postgresql-Tue.log": Permission
> > denied
> > Jul 28 11:49:57 poppy postgresql-ctl[307]: LOCATION: logfile_open,
> > syslogger.c:1160
> > Jul 28 11:50:01 poppy postgresql-ctl[307]: pg_ctl: could not start server
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > % ls -al /storage/log
> > drwxr-xr-x 1 postgres postgres 0 Jul 28 11:29 postgresql/
> >
> >
> > I have found a few entries on the web but with no clear fix. I even
> > saw this was a bug.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me more and how to fix if it is possible?
>
> What file system is that? ext4?
>
> What do you get for:
> ls -l /storage/log/postgresql/postgresql-Tue.log
> Perhaps the file exists and you don't have permissions to open it.
>
> If not, does the following succeed as user "postgres":
> touch /storage/log/postgresql/postgresql-Tue.log
> Do you get the same error message?
>
> What do you get for:
> getfacl -p /storage/log/postgresql
>

% getfacl -p /storage/log/postgresql
# file: /storage/log/postgresql
# owner: postgres
# group: postgres
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::r-x

getfattr -d /storage/log/postgresql
> Maybe some weird permissions or attributes are set.
>
> Another idea: the file system could be mounted read-only.
>

No, it has been working for long until recently.
% egrep " ro,|,ro " /proc/mounts does not return the path

Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>

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