2011/1/31 Jürgen Wolfsgruber <juergen(dot)wolfsgruber(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Trying to start a telnet-connection, the result was:
>
> telnet 127.0.0.1 5432
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Operation timed out
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
That's just bizarre. How can you get a network timeout over the
loopback address?
Your data modem is probably doing something funky to your network
stack, but I don't know what. Can you connect to PostgreSQL over a
UNIX socket when the system is in this state? Does stuff continue to
show up in the log file? (e.g. If you send the postmaster a SIGTERM
while it's like this, do you see shutdown messages?)
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