On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 10:06:53AM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: Hello! > So when you are running pg_ctlcluster 9.0 main start what user are you running > as? tried as root... > > Have you tried to directly start the 9.0 cluster as the postgres user?: just tried, same error.... postgres@agenda:~$ pg_ctlcluster 9.0 main startError: could not exec 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" : > 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. ok, got it, from your lines i saw that the binaries of the server were removed.... so i copied them over from the other server, and got the server running! pfouuuu...... thanks a lot! any suggestion how to keep informed about dying disks? (as you might have guessed, i am only a dev playing sys-admin...) -- ciao bboett ============================================================== bboett@xxxxxxxx http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett/ =============================================================== -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general