I built and installed -9.0.1 on my Slackware-13.1 server and it ran for a while. Now, without warning, one of my applications dependent upon postgres won't run. While trying to restart postgres I learned the .pid file did not exist so I removed /tmp/.s.PGSQL* and tried to restart postgres. Here's what I see: postgres@salmo:$ postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data & [1] 16044 postgres@salmo:/var/log/httpd$ LOG: could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory LOG: could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory LOG: could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory LOG: could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory LOG: could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory WARNING: could not open directory "/share/timezonesets": No such file or directory HINT: This may indicate an incomplete PostgreSQL installation, or that the file "/bin/postgres" has been moved away from its proper location. FATAL: invalid value for parameter "timezone_abbreviations": "Default" The files and directories are in /usr/local/pgsql/share: postgres@salmo:$ ls /usr/local/pgsql/share/ conversion_create.sql postgres.bki sql_features.txt doc/ postgres.description system_views.sql information_schema.sql postgres.shdescription timezone/ man/ postgresql.conf.sample timezonesets/ pg_hba.conf.sample psqlrc.sample tsearch_data/ pg_ident.conf.sample recovery.conf.sample unknown.pltcl pg_service.conf.sample snowball_create.sql What do I do to overcome this impasse and get postgres running again? Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general