Re: Can't restart Postgres

Actually I did "ps aux | grep post" just to cover all bases, but still
nothing.. except of course the grep itself.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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
>
> ???
>