Re: psql: could not connect to server: Network is

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 12:51 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> markos <el96645(at)mail(dot)ntua(dot)gr> writes:
> > psql -h localhost -U markulis
> > psql: could not connect to server: Network is unreachable
> > Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
> > TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
>
> Hm. "Network is unreachable" means that you have got a networking
> problem not a database problem. You'll probably find that simple
> commands like "ping localhost" don't work either. The problem could
> be a DNS issue --- what does "nslookup localhost" say? If it comes
> back with something reasonable, then you've got a kernel
> misconfiguration issue, which I don't think I can help you with.
>
> regards, tom lane

Thanks a lot. You were actually right, the network was down. I just had
to give the command : "sudo ifup lo". I just couldn't narrow my search
until you made sure that postgre is ok, so thanks again