I remember having to do the same thing on a aix oracle installation.
I wrote a little shell script that did it for me.
bob
"Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd." wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a postgres db which has been crashing about 5 times a day. It must
> be failrly apparent given my other messages to this mailing list.
>
> Now we are faced with a new problem. After crash we were able to restart
> postmaster. Now postgres is getting more temperamental. It refused to
> restart saying that the data directory is not found.
> When we posted this message last time... Somebody said... check out whether
> hard disk mounted. This is hilarious. We are doing serious stuff and the
> minimum we ensure that the directory exists.
>
> Finally I have cracked the problem. ipcclean utility does nothing. Instead
> you have to explicitly use ipcs and ipcrm and to clear all semaphore and
> shared memory which is blocked. After which restarting postmaster goes
> thru'.
>
> Hope this helps somebody in a different state of distress than mine.
>
> Bye,
>
> Murali
>
> Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.,
> 176, Gr. Floor, 6th Main
> 2nd Block RT Nagar
> Bangalore - 560 032
> India
> Ph: 91 80 3431470
>
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