I just installed RH9 on a new machine and installed postgres in the installation process. I got the following error when trying to start the postmaster so... I tried removing the postgres software then reinstalling. rpm first said the software was not installed then when I tried to reinstall rpm said it was already installed.
How do I solve this problem? Thanks for your help! Lynn -bash-2.05b$ postmaster& [1] 3139 -bash-2.05b$ FATAL: File /var/lib/pgsql/data/PG_VERSION is missing. This is not a valid data directory. [1]+ Exit 1 postmaster -bash-2.05b$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /var/lib/pgsql [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgsql]# for i in `ls postgresql*.rpm`; do rpm -e $i; done error: package postgresql72-libs-1-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-contrib-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-devel-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-docs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-jdbc-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-libs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-odbc-7.2.5-1.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-pl-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-python-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-server-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-tcl-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed error: package postgresql-test-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgsql]# for i in `ls postgresql*.rpm`; do rpm -i $i; done warning: postgresql72-libs-1-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql72-libs-1-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-contrib-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-contrib-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-devel-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-devel-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-docs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-docs-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-jdbc-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-jdbc-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-libs-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-libs-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-odbc-7.2.5-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-odbc-7.2.5-1 is already installed warning: postgresql-pl-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-pl-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-python-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-python-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-server-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-server-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-tcl-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-tcl-7.3.2-3 is already installed warning: postgresql-test-7.3.2-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package postgresql-test-7.3.2-3 is already installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgsql]# ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]