About "lock file postmaster.pid" Error , cannot setup postmaster

From: Ying Lu <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: About "lock file postmaster.pid" Error , cannot setup postmaster
Date: 2004-08-31 19:41:36
Message-ID: 4134D470.40607@cs.concordia.ca
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Hello all,

I met a problem about cannot start postmaster.

The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:

FATAL: lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already exists

Thanks in advance,
Emi

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