Postgres won't start - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Postgres won't start
Date
Msg-id CAJYQwwRYt9RMBzs-sH6uCr1OTG4joXqkDF-fkoYP6pv12t0dsQ@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Postgres won't start  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
Re: Postgres won't start  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Linux Mint (from Ubuntu) version 9.1.

Postgres will no longer start, but I cannot find out why.

Command line:
$ /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/pg_ctl start -D /home/postgresql/9.1/main -l /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log -s -w -o '-c config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf"'
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.


There is no error message in the log:
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:  postgres: PostmasterMain: initial environment dump:
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:  -----------------------------------------
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   MAIL=/var/mail/postgres
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   USER=postgres
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_TIME=C
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   SHLVL=1
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   HOME=/var/lib/postgresql
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=4464da00797efbf61ba9be4b517969c3-1375997124.817437-835692463
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_MONETARY=C
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   COLORTERM=mate-terminal
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   PG_GRANDPARENT_PID=15848
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LOGNAME=postgres
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   _=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/pg_ctl
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   TERM=xterm
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   PGLOCALEDIR=/usr/share/locale
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   PGSYSCONFDIR=/etc/postgresql-common
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/postgres
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   DISPLAY=:0
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   XAUTHORITY=/home/olly/.Xauthority
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   SHELL=/bin/bash
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   PWD=/var/lib/postgresql
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_NUMERIC=C
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   PGDATA=/home/postgresql/9.1/main
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:   LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:  -----------------------------------------
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:  TZ "localtime" gets max score 5200
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:  TZ "Singapore" scores 0: at 1357776000 2013-01-10 08:00:00 std versus 2013-01-10 01:00:00 std
2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG:  TZ "GMT" scores 0: at 1357776000 2013-01-10 00:00:00 std versus 2013-01-10 01:00:00 std
...[many lines of timezone info deleted]...
2013-08-08 21:35:34 GMT DEBUG:  TZ "Atlantic/St_Helena" scores 0: at 1357776000 2013-01-10 00:00:00 std versus 2013-01-10 01:00:00 std
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32399360)
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  removing file "pg_notify/0000"
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  max_safe_fds = 985, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 5
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  logger shutting down
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0): 0 callbacks to make
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  proc_exit(0): 0 callbacks to make
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  exit(0)
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  shmem_exit(-1): 0 callbacks to make
2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG:  proc_exit(-1): 0 callbacks to make


# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
33554432

I increased this to 64Mb
#  cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
67108864

but it made no difference

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