On 02/14/2017 11:17 AM, Shawn Thomas wrote:
> I inadvertently deleted the ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem out from under a running Postgres instance (9.4) which caused it to
shutdown. The last line of main.log:
>
> FATAL: could not load server certificate file "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem": No such file or directory
>
> I've since restored the cert but cannot get Postgres to start back up. It's the Debian 8 packaged version which
complicatesthe debugging and troubleshooting. There doesn't seem to be a way to do anything with Postgres outsided the
ofDebian's systemd wrappers. All I've got to work with is from /var/syslog:
>
> pangaea systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL Cluster 9.4-main...
> pangaea postgresql@9.4-main[28684]: Error: could not exec start -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main -l
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.4-main.log-s -o -c config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf" :
> pangaea systemd[1]: postgresql@9.4-main.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
>
> Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
It is likely a permissions issue. What does the systemctl log say?
JD
>
> -Shawn
>
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