Oliver Elphick <olly@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Linux Mint (from Ubuntu) version 9.1. > Postgres will no longer start, but I cannot find out why. > Command line: > $ /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/pg_ctl start -D /home/postgresql/9.1/main -l > /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log -s -w -o '-c > config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf"' > pg_ctl: could not start server > Examine the log output. > There is no error message in the log: This log file seems suspiciously incomplete. Is it the file mentioned in the pg_ctl -l switch? If so, that file would only be used until the syslogger process took over logging (which we know it did since we see its exit messages in there). To find out what happened after that, you need to look wherever your postgresql.conf is telling PG to log. I wonder whether we shouldn't change the syslogger to emit something to stderr when it takes over logging, saying "logging is now redirected to <someplace>". This isn't the first case I've seen of people forgetting to look in the right place. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
