On 6 March 2012 19:28, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes: >> On 6 March 2012 18:20, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Still, I agree with your point: Thom should reboot and see if the >>> misbehavior is still there, because that would be useful info for his >>> bug report. > >> After a reboot, initdb completes successfully. I don't think it >> performed an fsck of any kind as I don't see it in the logs. > > Fascinating. So maybe there is something to Bosco's theory of something > holding open the old pidfile. But what would that be? The postmaster > doesn't hold it open, just write it and close it.
No idea. I did run an lsof while the problem was still present and grep'd for the directory as I too suspected there may be some process thinking it still had a reference to the file, but there were no matches. -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
