On 2/15/07, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: [...] > > Hmm, let's see, your log file said: > > LOG: 00000: shutting down > LOCATION: ShutdownXLOG, xlog.c:5031 > > <I infer the restart is here> > > FATAL: 58P01: could not remove old lock file "postmaster.pid": No > such file or directory > HINT: The file seems accidentally left over, but it could not be > removed. Please remove the file by hand and try again. > > The hint and the fatal message come the code that Tom Lane quoted. > > This means that the exclusive create open(2) of the lock file failed > with EEXIST or EACCES, no other process was found with the pid in the > lock file and then when PostgreSQL went to remove the lockfile the > lockfile was gone! > > What removed the lockfile, and why should PostgreSQL complain at that > point instead of just looping and trying again?
I removed the lockfile and cleared the "maintenance" flag on the postgresql service which started up properly at this point. Thanks Peter > > Nico > -- >
