Re: Help me start postmaster on a default installation of PostgreSQL.

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Lord Voldemort" <murderthemuggles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>
Subject: Re: Help me start postmaster on a default installation of PostgreSQL.
Date: 2011-07-06 17:10:49
Message-ID: 4E1450C9020000250003F047@gw.wicourts.gov
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Lord Voldemort <murderthemuggles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in> wrote:

> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and I have installed PostgreSQL and JDBC
> drivers form the repository.

What repository do you mean? Ubuntu's?

> I have not changed any default settings.

> Command "pg_ctl start" or "postmaster" gives an error about not
> being able to find "postgresql.conf" in the directory specified by
> PGDATA or my home folder if it's blank.

If you used Ubuntu's version, shouldn't you be using the `service`
command to control it? I'm not sure what version comes with 10.10,
but on my older kubuntu machine, it's:

sudo service postgresql-8.4 start

> Apart from that my installation is working fine. I've already
> created a user for myself and a small trial database too.

Without successfully starting the database server???

If the above suggestion doesn't help, please read this and post a
more detailed message:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems

It's easier for people to help if your post isn't such a, er,
Riddle.... ;-)

-Kevin

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