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

From: "gnari" <gnari(at)simnet(dot)is>
To: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>, "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: About "lock file postmaster.pid" Error , cannot setup postmaster
Date: 2004-08-31 19:55:34
Message-ID: 002201c48f94$7a7f9590$0100000a@wp2000
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From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
> 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

did you try to rm /usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid ?

gnari

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