Re: Postgres service fails to start on Windows 2003

If it helps, I've tried running postgres.exe from the command prompt in
debug mode and it just locks up after this:

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data>..\bin\postgres.exe -p 5432 -D . -d 5
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: postgres: PostmasterMain: initial
environ dump:
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: -----------------------------------------
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and
Setting
s\All Users
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG:
ClusterLog=C:\WINDOWS\Cluster\cluster.lo
g
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program
Files\Comm
on Files
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: CYGWIN=tty
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: lib=C:\Program Files\SQLXML 4.0\bin\
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: OS=Windows_NT
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG:
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.J
S;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family
6 Model
15 Stepping 11, GenuineIntel
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PROCESSOR_REVISION=0f0b
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PROMPT=$P$G
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: SBSProgramDir=C:\Program
Files\Microsoft
Windows Small Business Server
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: SystemDrive=C:
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG:
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\postgres\LOCALS~1\Temp
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG:
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\postgres\LOCALS~1\Temp
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: USERDNSDOMAIN=KITCHENPC.LOCAL
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: USERDOMAIN=HOME
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: USERNAME=postgres
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and
Settings\po
stgres
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: VISUALSVN_SERVER=C:\Program
Files\Visual
SVN Server\
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: windir=C:\WINDOWS
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: winsbprogramdir=C:\Program
Files\Windows
for Small Business Server
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PGLOCALEDIR=C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL/
8.3/share/locale
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: PGSYSCONFDIR=C:/Program
Files/PostgreSQL
/8.3/etc
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: LC_COLLATE=English_United
States.1252
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: LC_MONETARY=C
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: LC_NUMERIC=C
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: LC_TIME=C
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: LC_MESSAGES=English_United
States.1252
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: -----------------------------------------
2009-02-18 22:23:53 GMT DEBUG: TZ "US/Pacific" matches Windows timezone
"Pacifi
c Standard Time"
2009-02-18 14:23:53 PST LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dl
l"
2009-02-18 14:23:53 PST DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=38395904)
2009-02-18 14:23:53 PST DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 987, usable_fds = 1000,
already_o
pen = 3

Mike Christensen wrote:
> Hi All -
>
> I'm having problems getting the PostgreSQL service to start. This
> started happening after I changed a disk quota to allow for larger
> database sizes, and no other configuration has changed. Here's what
> is in the event log. I've tried rebooting several times, and deleting
> postmaster*.* files as well.
>
> 2009-02-18 14:02:51 PST LOG: loaded library
> "$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
>
> 2009-02-18 14:02:51 PST LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: No error
> 2009-02-18 14:02:51 PST HINT: Is another postmaster already running
> on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
>
> 2009-02-18 14:02:51 PST WARNING: could not create listen socket for "*"
>
> 2009-02-18 14:02:51 PST FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
>
> Timed out waiting for server startup
>
> I'm totally out of ideas, anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
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