On Monday 20 December 2010 5:09:24 pm Rich Shepard wrote: > 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 As I remember it there was more than one version of Postgres on this machine. Are you sure you are using the correct postgres binary? While I am it is there a reason you are not using the system start scripts or pg_ctl:)? -- 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
