Re: postmaster won't start under cygwin after password change - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Shelby Cain
Subject Re: postmaster won't start under cygwin after password change
Date
Msg-id 20040324185307.13128.qmail@web41613.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to postmaster won't start under cygwin after password change  (Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com>)
List pgsql-general
You have to update the credentials stored in the
service configuration.

Start->Run->services.msc->[service name]->Logon

Regards,

Shelby Cain


--- Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com>
wrote:
> I asked on cygwin but no answer yet; maybe someone
> here knows.
>
> I've been running PostgreSQL 7.4.1 successfully for
> a few weeks under an
> updated cygwin, but it stopped working over the
> weekend.  That happened
> to be the time XP Pro decided my postgres password
> should expire.  I
> gave it a new password, as requested, but postmaster
> still won't start.
> ipc-daemon2.exe is running.
>
> When I tried to start the postmaster as postgres and
> not as a service
> using
>
> postmaster -D /var/postgresql/data
>
> I got
>
> LOG: shmdt(0xf90000) failed: invalid argument
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-03-21
> 09:04:56 PST
> LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/1DB0E00
> LOG: redo record is at 0/1DB0E00; undo record is at
> 0/0; shutdown TRUE
> LOG: next transaction ID: 3987; next OID: 18937
> LOG: database system is ready
>
> but when I try cygrunsrv -S postmaster
>
> I get a Windows error 5 (logon).
>
> Suggestions?  I do have a backup of the database, so
> I guess I could
> start over.  I guess I'm trying to figure out where
> to start in
>
/cygwin/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.1.README.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
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