Re: Invalid redo in checkpoint record

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Shak <sshaikh(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a recent server crash after which the whole system hung and power had
> to be pulled, I'm having the following error pop up when trying to start the
> DB:
>
> * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server
> * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
> 2009-11-26 16:00:23 GMT LOG:  database system was interrupted; last known up
> at 2009-11-25 17:37:07 GMT
> 2009-11-26 16:00:23 GMT PANIC:  invalid redo in checkpoint record
> 2009-11-26 16:00:23 GMT LOG:  startup process (PID 3126) was terminated by
> signal 6: Aborted
> 2009-11-26 16:00:23 GMT LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process
> failure
>
>  [fail]
>
> This is on Ubuntu 9.10. I've since tried to reinstall Postgres via Synaptic
> (using complete removal), but I'm getting the same error.
>
> The data is unimportant, so is there any way of getting the server itself to
> run again? I've been advised to create a new cluster, but if I can somehow
> reset or recreate the default one that'd be the best option. Otherwise I'm
> considering reinstalling the whole shebang which seems a bit drastic.

Take a look here

http://www.stuartellis.eu/articles/postgresql-setup/

for things like

pg_dropcluster
pg_createcluster