Thread: How to recover error message at boot time?

I just upgraded.  I still receive an error on booting about postgres and
why it doesn't start.  I cannot find this error in /var/log/messages or in
dmesg files.  How can I capture this information to I can read it [scrolls
by very fast]?

All help appreciated.

TIA

Bob Hartung

В Вск, 04.05.2003, в 08:08, Bob Hartung пишет:

Bob,

> I just upgraded.  I still receive an error on booting about postgres and
> why it doesn't start.  I cannot find this error in /var/log/messages or in
> dmesg files.  How can I capture this information to I can read it [scrolls
> by very fast]?

Press Shift-PgUp a few times, if you or the system didn't switch away
from the first console (for example due to X starting). If that doesn't
work, you can also start PostgreSQL manually, which should lead to the
same error message. Depending on your operating system the command for
that is something like

/etc/init.d/postgresql start

Hope this helps.

--
Markus Bertheau.
Berlin, Berlin.
Germany.

Bob- you might also want to look in /var/log/postgres.log

(That's the location on the Debian Linux dist- your location may vary.)

-Nick

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> Subject: [ADMIN] How to recover error message at boot time?
>
>
> I just upgraded.  I still receive an error on booting about postgres and
> why it doesn't start.  I cannot find this error in
> /var/log/messages or in
> dmesg files.  How can I capture this information to I can read it
> [scrolls
> by very fast]?
>
> All help appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Bob Hartung
>
>
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