Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Akhtar Yasmin-B05532" <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com>
Cc: lennin(dot)caro(at)yahoo(dot)com, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error
Date: 2008-09-04 21:00:23
Message-ID: dcc563d10809041400n7a5ef72w86973bc0df2c5007@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Akhtar Yasmin-B05532
<B05532(at)freescale(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> exist the file postmaster.pid in your directory?
> No the postmaster.pid does not exist in the directory, even when
> I start the server, it does not appear, I am assuming, that this file is
> present only when postmaster in running.
>
>> check the log of the OS and the permissions of the directory
> /home/data/www/pg7/data
>
> I cannot check the logs, as we are not logging postgres, also the
> directory permissions for
> /home/data/www/pg7/data is 700

Can you reconfigure postgresql to log to stderr for a minute and then
try to start it in single user mode and see what it says?

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