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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] About "lock file postmaster.pid" Error , cannot setup
From:       Ying Lu <ying_lu () cs ! concordia ! ca>
Date:       2004-08-31 20:08:47
Message-ID: 4134DACF.4060402 () cs ! concordia ! ca
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Thank you gnari,

I deleted the postmaster.pid and /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock files; now it 
works :)


gnari wrote:

>From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
>  
>
>>The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
>>server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
>>successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
>>postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:
>>
>>FATAL:  lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already
>>    
>>
>exists
>
>did you try to rm /usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid ?
>
>gnari
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