Actually I did "ps aux | grep post" just to cover all bases, but still nothing.. except of course the grep itself. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Thom Brown <thombrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> * Forcing it to shutdown which leads to a recover-run on next startup. >> pg_ctl: PID file "/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist >> Is server running? >> * Forced shutdown failed!!! Something is wrong with your system, >> please take care of it manually. >> [ ok ] >> * Starting PostgreSQL ... >> waiting for server to >> start...............................................................could >> not start server [ !! ] >> * The pid-file doesn't exist but pg_ctl reported a running server. >> * Please check whether there is another server running on the same >> port or read the log-file. > > At this point did you do something like: > > ps ax|grep postgres > > ??? > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
