Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
Do you use SELinux?
Look for "avc denied" messages in the logs to see if it's the case.
No, I don't (unless I missed it and Debian Etch uses it by default
now). To be sure, I checked the log files and only say this:
2007-07-16 13:58:03 EDT LOG: incomplete startup packet
2007-07-16 13:58:04 EDT LOG: could not open temporary statistics file
"global/pgstat.tmp": No such file or directory
2007-07-16 13:59:03 EDT FATAL: could not open file
"global/pg_database": No such file or directory
2007-07-16 13:59:04 EDT LOG: could not open temporary statistics file
"global/pgstat.tmp": No such file or directory
2007-07-16 14:00:03 EDT FATAL: could not open file
"global/pg_database": No such file or directory
Over and over again. I tried shutting down postgresql again and got
this at the shell:
# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 stop
Stopping PostgreSQL 8.1 database server: main* pg_ctl: postmaster does
not shut down
(does not shutdown gracefully, now stopping immediately)pg_ctl: could
not send stop signal (PID: 19958): No such process
Insecure dependency in kill while running with -T switch at
/usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 370.
(does not shutdown, killing the process)
failed!
And this in the logs:
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: received fast shutdown request
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: shutting down
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT PANIC: could not open control file
"global/pg_control": No such file or directory
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: background writer process (PID 19960) was
terminated by signal 6
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: terminating any other active server processes
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: all server processes terminated;
reinitializing
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: could not open file "postmaster.pid": No
such file or directory
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT PANIC: could not open control file
"global/pg_control": No such file or directory
2007-07-16 14:28:00 EDT LOG: could not open temporary statistics file
"global/pgstat.tmp": No such file or directory
Lastly, to be very sure, I tried grep'ing for that string with no
results:
nicole:/var/log# grep "avc denied" * -Rni
nicole:/var/log#
Thanks for the reply!
Madison
