Hi, On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:38, Peter Elmers wrote: | I tailed the system.log directly after trying to start pg_ctl. Not a | single line about postgres. Also for the crashlog. | The Console.log is new to me. I will check this. also: you might want to try ktrace-ing the program and look at where exactly it barfs. I'd guess this could be a shared memory problem (too low shm settings). Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----