Re: About "lock file postmaster.pid" Error , cannot setup

[Ying Lu <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>]

Thank you gnari,

I deleted the postmaster.pid and /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock files; now it 
works :)


gnari wrote:

> From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
>  
>
> > The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
> > server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
> > successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
> > postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:
> >
> > FATAL:  lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already
> >    
> exists
>
> did you try to rm /usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid ?
>
> gnari
>
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