Re: postmaster won't start under cygwin after password change

You have to update the credentials stored in the
service configuration.

Start->Run->services.msc->[service name]->Logon

Regards,

Shelby Cain

--- Bill Harris <bill_harris(at)facilitatedsystems(dot)com>
wrote:
> I asked on cygwin but no answer yet; maybe someone
> here knows.
>
> I've been running PostgreSQL 7.4.1 successfully for
> a few weeks under an
> updated cygwin, but it stopped working over the
> weekend. That happened
> to be the time XP Pro decided my postgres password
> should expire. I
> gave it a new password, as requested, but postmaster
> still won't start.
> ipc-daemon2.exe is running.
>
> When I tried to start the postmaster as postgres and
> not as a service
> using
>
> postmaster -D /var/postgresql/data
>
> I got
>
> LOG: shmdt(0xf90000) failed: invalid argument
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-03-21
> 09:04:56 PST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/1DB0E00
> LOG: redo record is at 0/1DB0E00; undo record is at
> 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> LOG: next transaction ID: 3987; next OID: 18937
> LOG: database system is ready
>
> but when I try cygrunsrv -S postmaster
>
> I get a Windows error 5 (logon).
>
> Suggestions? I do have a backup of the database, so
> I guess I could
> start over. I guess I'm trying to figure out where
> to start in
>
/cygwin/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.1.README.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
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