On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 03:30 AM, Eric Theis wrote:
> I am running PostgreSQL 7.1.2/3 on Mandrake 8.1. My problem (well my > immediate problem) is that the Postmaster will not start. I installed > MDK a > couple months ago. In that time, Postgres has started fine until a > couple > days ago. I do not get any messages (either on screen or in syslog), > but the > Starting Postmaster init script fails. I have tried uninstalling then > reinstalling the RPMs, but that only fixed the problem while I was > logged in > immediately after the reinstall. After rebooting it failed again. I > have > tried to upgrade the Postgres install from 7.1.2 to 7.1.3, but again no > luck. > This is a development box that is not left on, but turned on/off pretty > frequently. Any thoughts or suggestions on where to look would be > greatly > appreciated. How much space do you have left on /var ? I had a similar problem, but looking at the logs for postgres (In debian, /var/log/postgres.log ) I saw that it was failing to start as it needed 20Mb ~ to complete a transaction. If you don't have much space left on /var/ you may like to allocate more space or clear some old files. ============================== David Stanaway Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
