str replication failed, restart fixed it

[Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I had a problem today and i fixed it by restarting postgres.

That doesn't seem to make sense to me, what could have been going on?

This is the log:
2014-02-26 04:30:45 CET db: ip: us: FATAL:  could not send data to WAL stream: SSL error: sslv3 alert unexpected message
       
cp: cannot stat `/data/postgresql/9.1/main/wal_archive/000000010000006400000062': No such file or directory
2014-02-26 04:30:45 CET db: ip: us: LOG:  unexpected pageaddr 64/3FBC6000 in log file 100, segment 98, offset 12345344
cp: cannot stat `/data/postgresql/9.1/main/wal_archive/000000010000006400000062': No such file or directory
2014-02-26 04:30:45 CET db: ip: us: LOG:  streaming replication successfully connected to primary
2014-02-26 04:32:09 CET db: ip: us: LOG:  startup process (PID 5385) was terminated by signal 7: Bus error
2014-02-26 04:32:09 CET db: ip: us: LOG:  terminating any other active server processes

The cluster was "online" according to pg_lsclusters, but it was not possible to connect to it:
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
    Is the server running locally and accepting
    connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

uptime tells me this:
postgres@myserver:~$ uptime
 10:47:27 up 89 days, 42 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

This is postgresql 9.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 on OpenVZ

The weirdest thing is that restarting the postgres cluster fixed it.

Does this make any sense to you?

Cheers,

WBL

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