Re: Can't restart Postgres

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
> * Forcing it to shutdown which leads to a recover-run on next startup.
> pg_ctl: PID file "/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist
> Is server running?
> * Forced shutdown failed!!! Something is wrong with your system,
> please take care of it manually.
> [ ok ]
> * Starting PostgreSQL ...
> waiting for server to
> start...............................................................could
> not start server [ !! ]
> * The pid-file doesn't exist but pg_ctl reported a running server.
> * Please check whether there is another server running on the same
> port or read the log-file.

At this point did you do something like:

ps ax|grep postgres

???