Re: Postmaster will not start???

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.

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