You don't give a lot of information, but try "sudo rm postmaster.pid" or "sudo -u postgres rm postmaster.pid" if you are sure that postgres is not running.
Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Rob Goethals / SNP <rob.goeth...@snp.nl>wrote: > Hi, > > > > This is my first post to this list, so I hope I am posting it to the > correct lists. But I am really stuck and getting pretty desperate at the > moment. > > This weekend my database crashed while importing some Openstreetmapdata > and I can't get it back to work again. It happened before and normally I > would reset the WAL-dir with the pg_resetxlog command. I would loose some > data but that would be all. > > This time it is somehow different because he doesn't recognize any of the > important files anymore. For example when I try to start Postgresql again > with the command: > > /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/pg_ctl -D OSM/ start > > > > I get the following error: > > FATAL: could not create lock file "postmaster.pid": No such file or > directory > > > > But when I do a ls -l on the directory I can see the file exists. > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Jan 24 10:07 backup > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 14 11:10 base > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 17 09:46 global > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Oct 11 10:49 pg_clog > > -rwxr-xr-x 0 postgres postgres 4476 Oct 11 10:49 pg_hba.conf > > -rwxr-xr-x 0 postgres postgres 1636 Oct 11 10:49 pg_ident.conf > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 17 11:29 pg_log > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Oct 11 10:49 pg_multixact > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 17 08:58 pg_notify > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Oct 11 10:49 pg_serial > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 12 09:58 pg_stat_tmp > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 14 09:01 pg_subtrans > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Oct 11 10:49 pg_tblspc > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Oct 11 10:49 pg_twophase > > -rwxr-xr-x 0 postgres postgres 4 Oct 11 10:49 PG_VERSION > > drwx------ 0 postgres postgres 0 Feb 14 13:37 pg_xlog > > -rwxr-xr-x 0 postgres postgres 19168 Oct 11 11:41 postgresql.conf > > -rwxr-xr-x 0 postgres postgres 121 Feb 17 08:57 postmaster.opts > > -rwxr-xr-x 0 postgres postgres 88 Feb 17 08:58 postmaster.pid > > > > I cannot perform any action on the postmaster.pid file. I tried cp, mv and > rm, but nothing works. Is there anything I can do to make the system > recognize this file again? And get my database up and running? Or is all > hopelessly lost? > > > > I have Postgresql 9.1 installed on Ubuntu 12.04. > > > > Kind regards, > > Rob. > > >
