On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 05:50:28PM +0200, Teemu Kanstr�n wrote: > > > I have PostgreSQL installed under Cygwin and it was running fine as a > > > service on my NT. Then suddenly my NT hangs for no reason I can see and > > > I tried to shutdown from the task manager but even that didnt work. So > > > I just rebooted the computer with power off/power on. After that the > > > postmaster service no longer starts. > > > > You probably have a stale pid file. It's something very > > annoying when you don't do a proper shutdown, and don't have > > proper startup scripts. I'm still looking for a good solution to > > this. > > How do I fix this then?
Just delete the postmaster.pid file. Kurt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
