Re: Postgres no longer starts

raghu ram <raghuchennuru@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 30 May 2012 21:53:59 +0530

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Bart Lateur <bla@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

CentOS 5.x (now 5.8), Postgres 8.4.something. Postgres had been up and running for over a year now.

After an update on the system, and adding mod_ssl in Apache (is this related? No idea.), Postgres no longer starts up. It just fails silently. “pgstartup.log” contains only one single line: 

                runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted

I have no idea where to begin to debug this; Google only produces a handful of results about this error message in relation to Postgres. None fix my problem.

Whatever I do, everything just fails quietly. As far as I can see, the configuration files haven’t changed.

Help? Where do I even begin to debug this? Could a complete reinstall of Postgres and restoration of the databases help?

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                Bart.

Could you please, try to start the cluster using "pg_ctl" utility:

Syntax: <Installation Directory>/bin/pg_ctl -D <Data Directory> start

Ex:- /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/data start

and then share the log file information 

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Thanks & Regards,
Raghu Ram
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