Re: pg96 not running as service - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Hi Peter,

 

first i would thorouhly check you hardware.

 

Often there are RAM problems. Do you have ECC RAM? NOt 100% sure... This is a VM sitting alongside a whole bunch of onther ones, but I woudl imagine there are not issue here. I can ask IT in the morning when they get in.

 

Do you have RAID? The storage it sitting on a SAN.. not sure if this is ont he HDD or SDD SAN but they are very much RAIDedd

 

Also check for full filesystems? 15GB+ availabe on both (virtual) HDDs

 

best,

 

Anton

 

Von: Peter Watt <pwatt01@gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. August 2020 14:35
An: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Betreff: pg96 not running as service

 

Hi All,

System:Win server 2016

Version:pg9.6 

 

I have had an odd problem happen today. My server that has been running fine for 2 years has decided that it will not start any more. Investigating a little i have found that it works fine when running from command line, using either of the below commands:

 

C:\POSTGR~1\pg96\..\pg96\bin\pg_ctl start -c -w --log "C:\tmp\logs.txt" -D "C:\PostgreSQL\data\pg96"

 

C:\PostgreSQL\pg96\pgservice.exe "//TS//PostgreSQL 9.6 Server"

 

but when trying to run as a service (using  C:\PostgreSQL\pg96\pgservice.exe "//RS//PostgreSQL 9.6 Server") as system user i get this in the windows event viewer

pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.

 

I have looked at the logs, both in C:\tmp\logs.txt (empty file)  and C:\PostgreSQL\data\logs\pg96 (no new lines) no no avail. Can anyone help me out??

 

This seems to happen soon after I created a new DB using pgadmin4 and had a new instance of bitbucket populate it, but not immediately after.

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Peter