Postmaster failing to start on reboot

["surabhi.ahuja" <surabhi.ahuja@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

 

I reboot my machine while postmaster is up.

 

after the m/c gets rebooted ,

I grep for the process "postmaster", and it does not find it.

 

So,  I try starting postmaster. and it displays the following error message:

HINT:  If you're sure there are no old server processes still running, remove the shared memory block with the command "ipcr
m", or just delete the file "/export/home1/sdc_image_pool/dbx/postmaster.pid".

 

does it means that i will have to delete the postmaster.pid file ..in such a scenarion always?

 

thanks,

regards

Surabhi Ahuja