postmaster does not start up

Greetings - this is with a newly-compiled 7.0.3 under debian 2.2 on a
pentium box.  All compiling went just fine; however, although the
postmaster is running based on ps, it can't be accessed. Any ideas will be
much appreciated.

postgres@nujoma:~$ declare -x PGDATA="/var/lib/postgres/data"
postgres@nujoma:~$ ls /var/lib/postgres/data
PG_VERSION   pg_geqo.sample        pg_hba.conf  pg_xlog
base         pg_group              pg_log       postmaster.opts
pg_control   pg_group_name_index   pg_shadow    postmaster.opts.default
pg_database  pg_group_sysid_index  pg_variable
postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start
postmaster successfully started up.
postgres@nujoma:~$ DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting up at Tue Dec  5
12:37:46 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System was shut down at Mon Dec  4 13:48:41 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System is in production state at Tue Dec  5 12:37:46
2000

postgres@nujoma:~$
postgres@nujoma:~$ psql
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
connectDB() -- connect() failed: Connection refused
Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix
socket '5432'?

postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl status
pg_ctl: postmaster is running (pid: 1775)
options are:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
-p 5432
-D /var/lib/postgres/data
-B 64
-b /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres
-N 32
postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl stop
Smart Shutdown request at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
postmaster successfully shut down.
DEBUG:  Data Base System shutting down at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System shut down at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
postgres@nujoma:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -w start
Waiting for postmaster starting up...DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting
up at Tue Dec  5 12:38:06 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System was shut down at Tue Dec  5 12:38:01 2000
DEBUG:  Data Base System is in production state at Tue Dec  5 12:38:06
2000
............................................................pg_ctl:
postmaster does not start up
postgres@nujoma:~$ ps aux | grep postmaster
postgres  1816  0.0  1.0  4280  996 pts/4    S    12:38   0:00
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
postgres  2005  0.0  0.4  1108  404 pts/4    S    12:41   0:00 grep
postmaster


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