Re: Postgres no longer starts

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Bart Lateur <bla(at)taxistop(dot)be> wrote:

> CentOS 5.x (now 5.8), Postgres 8.4.something. Postgres had been up and
> running for over a year now.****
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> After an update on the system, and adding mod_ssl in Apache (is this
> related? No idea.), Postgres no longer starts up. It just fails silently.
> “pgstartup.log” contains only one single line: ****
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> runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted****
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> I have no idea where to begin to debug this; Google only produces a
> handful of results about this error message in relation to Postgres. None fix
> my problem.****
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> Whatever I do, everything just fails quietly. As far as I can see, the
> configuration files haven’t changed.****
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> Help? Where do I even begin to debug this? Could a complete reinstall of
> Postgres and restoration of the databases help?****
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> Bart.****
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Could you please, try to start the cluster using "pg_ctl" utility:

Syntax: <Installation Directory>/bin/pg_ctl -D <Data Directory> start

Ex:- /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/data start

and then share the log file information

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Raghu Ram

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