I have just tried upgrading to 7.02 using the rpm. I am using RedHat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14-5.0. After various difficulties and an unsuccessful scour through the mailing list archives, I uninstalled everything and reinstalled. Things appear to go well, and running the postgresql start script chugs away, gets and ends up with: Checking postgresql installation: looks good! Starting postgresql service: failed. I'm not really sure how to proceed. Any suggestions would be welcome. Sean.