On Monday 08 February 2010 7:11:28 am Marc Lustig wrote: > I managed to install again postgresql-8.4 from hardy-backports. > Now the installation is identical with the previous one. > > With the fresh database, the server starts up fine. > > Now I copied all from the backup to > /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4 > /var/lib/postgresql/8.4 > > The the startup fails like this: > > * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server > > * Error: could not exec > /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start > -D /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main -l > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.4-main.log -s -o -c > config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf" : > > the log-file is empty. > > Can you please help to get postgresql to start again using the previous > database. I suppose there should be no serious issues, as the version of > postgresql is identical now. Where are you starting this from? This start up script looks wrong. It looks like a combination of scripts. For a comparison here is mine for 8.4 on Ubuntu: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
