On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 9:46:42 am you wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:41:32AM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: > Hello! > > > Define scrambled backup. I am CCing list so more eyes can see this. > > well.... disks on both side had block loss, without me noticing.... > so the backups were on the wrong partitions, and most of them are now > part of lost+found if not lost completely... > > my luck that boths disks gave up more or less, at the same time, and > more or less silently.... Alright, so really scrambled. > > > On original machine verify that the locations and files in above command > > exist: /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/main > > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.0-main.log > > /etc/postgresql/9.0/main/postgresql.conf > > all three ok! So when you are running pg_ctlcluster 9.0 main start what user are you running as? Have you tried to directly start the 9.0 cluster as the postgres user?: usr/lib/postgresql/9.0/bin/pg_ctl /usr/lib/postgresql/9.0/bin/pg_ctl start -D\ /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/main\ -l /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.0-main.log -s -o -c\ config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.0/main/postgresql.conf" > > > Get the 9.0 server running. > > heh :D > that's what i didn't manage to do.... -- 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
