On 6 March 2012 17:16, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Looking back through my terminal log, one thing might lend a clue from >> before I tried rebuliding it: > >> thom@swift:~/Development$ pg_ctl stop >> waiting for server to shut down....cd .postgre.s >> ............. >> .... > > > >> ....^C >> thom@swift:~/Development$ pg_ctl stop >> pg_ctl: could not send stop signal (PID: 2807): No such process >> thom@swift:~/Development$ ps -ef | grep postgres >> postgres 1199 1 0 Mar04 ? 00:00:01 >> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main >> -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf >> postgres 1273 1199 0 Mar04 ? 00:00:18 postgres: writer >> process >> postgres 1274 1199 0 Mar04 ? 00:00:14 postgres: wal writer >> process >> postgres 1275 1199 0 Mar04 ? 00:00:03 postgres: autovacuum >> launcher process >> postgres 1276 1199 0 Mar04 ? 00:00:02 postgres: stats >> collector process >> thom 16476 4302 0 15:30 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto postgres > > Hm. It looks like pg_ctl found a PID file pointing to a non-existent > process, which is a bit like what you're seeing initdb do. > > I wonder whether this is somehow caused by conflicting settings for > PGDATA. Do you have a setting for that in your environment, or .bashrc > or someplace, that is different from what you're trying to use? These are in my env output: PATH=/home/thom/Development/psql/bin/:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games PGDATA=/home/thom/Development/data/ PGPORT=5488 This appears in my build script before configure: export PGDATA=$HOME/Development/data/ export PATH=$HOME/Development/psql/bin/:$PATH export PGPORT=5488 And those 3 lines also appear in my .bashrc file without any variation: export PGDATA=$HOME/Development/data/ export PATH=$HOME/Development/psql/bin/:$PATH export PGPORT=5488 -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
