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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql 8.2.14 cannot stop
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:15:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003302115.41102.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53e35fd51003300631k4d3794f3n3c651d6d515c2090@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 15:31:50 Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
> 
> my system is gentoo amd64, postgresql 8.2.14. the postgresql service
> can start without any error; but when i try to stop it, it reports
> failure. the process of postgresql are actually terminated. if i try
> to stop the service again, i got
> 
> "start-stop-daemon: fopen `/var/lib/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid':
> No such file or direc"
> 
> i will have to use zap to reset the service status. how to fix this?


We don't need the error message from the second time you stop it. We know for 
sure that will not work. We need the error from the first failure. Without 
that, we can't help you.

Otherwise you are just asking how long is a piece of string? And we all know 
what the correct answer to that is.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 13:31 [gentoo-user] postgresql 8.2.14 cannot stop Xi Shen
2010-03-30 19:15 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-03-30 23:15   ` Peter Humphrey
2010-03-30 21:10 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-30 22:58 ` Michael Higgins
2010-03-31  1:31   ` Xi Shen

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