"Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > When I restart, everything seems to come up fine with the exception > that postmaster starts in a state such that it doesn't seem to be > accepting connections (either over UNIX or TCP/IP). As best I can > tell, it is using the init script to start postgres because > pg_autovacuum tries to start, too, and dies shortly after the box > comes up because it, too, cannot connect to postgres. hmmm ... maybe you need to start your DNS server first? > Also, is there any way to get more status out of a postmaster if one > cannot connect to it? One thing I'd look into is exactly what ports it's listening to --- try lsof and/or netstat for this. Also, have you looked at the postmaster log? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org