On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:34 -0500, Ardian Xharra wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a database installed on Intel Xeon (Dell) and running on > postgreSQL 8.1. > And the database couldn't start. Here is the logfile of what happend: > > 2006-11-14 00:28:38 PANIC: could not write to log file 6, segment 239 > at offset 6430720, length 16384: Permission denied > Are you running PostgreSQL as a user other than the one that owns the data directory? Did the filesystem somehow get mounted in RO mode? Regards, Jeff Davis