Thread: can't startup PG-8.0.3

can't startup PG-8.0.3

From

Ruslan A Dautkhanov

Date:

25 June 2005, 13:48:03

Hello !

I can't startup PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on my server. The OS is
# uname -a
FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 #1: Mon Apr 25 11:58:52 KRAST 2005

I have experience with PostgreSQL 7.x, and I can't figure out why this
happen. PG didn't
say anything meaningful, that can point me why he did not start.

I have a command
    su - pgsql -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -d 5 -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data'
and a last output of it is
...
%DEBUG:  TZ "SystemV/PST8" scores 0: at 1074099600 2004-01-14 09:00:00
std versus 2004-01-15 00:00:00 std
%DEBUG:  TZ "SystemV/YST9" scores 0: at 1074099600 2004-01-14 08:00:00
std versus 2004-01-15 00:00:00 std
%DEBUG:  TZ "SystemV/HST10" scores 0: at 1074099600 2004-01-14 07:00:00
std versus 2004-01-15 00:00:00 std
%DEBUG:  Reject TZ "Mideast/Riyadh87": uses leap seconds
%DEBUG:  Reject TZ "Mideast/Riyadh88": uses leap seconds
%DEBUG:  Reject TZ "Mideast/Riyadh89": uses leap seconds
%DEBUG:  postmaster: PostmasterMain: initial environ dump:
%DEBUG:  -----------------------------------------
%DEBUG:         TERM=xterm
%DEBUG:         SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
%DEBUG:         USER=pgsql
%DEBUG:         PGLIB=/usr/local/lib
%DEBUG:         FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES
%DEBUG:         MAIL=/var/mail/pgsql
%DEBUG:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin
%DEBUG:         BLOCKSIZE=K
%DEBUG:         PWD=/usr/local/pgsql
%DEBUG:         SHLVL=1
%DEBUG:         HOME=/usr/local/pgsql
%DEBUG:         PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
%DEBUG:         _=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
%DEBUG:         PGSYSCONFDIR=/usr/local/pgsql/etc
%DEBUG:  -----------------------------------------

I even tries to use ktrace(1) :
    ktrace su - pgsql -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -d 5 -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data'
and a last lines of kdump is
 80040 su       CALL  close(0x3)
 80040 su       RET   close 0
 80040 su       CALL  seteuid(0)
 80040 su       RET   seteuid 0
 80040 su       CALL  setegid(0x46)
 80040 su       RET   setegid 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigaction(0x2,0xbfbfe764,0xbfbfe744)
 80040 su       RET   sigaction 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigaction(0x3,0xbfbfe764,0xbfbfe724)
 80040 su       RET   sigaction 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigaction(0xd,0xbfbfe764,0xbfbfe704)
 80040 su       RET   sigaction 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigaction(0x12,0xbfbfe764,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigaction 0
 80040 su       CALL  pipe
 80040 su       RET   pipe 3
 80040 su       CALL  fork
 80040 su       RET   fork 80041/0x138a9
 80040 su       CALL  sigaction(0x16,0xbfbfe764,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigaction 0
 80040 su       CALL  close(0x3)
 80040 su       RET   close 0
 80040 su       CALL  setpgid(0x138a9,0x138a9)
 80040 su       RET   setpgid 0
 80040 su       CALL  ioctl(0x2,TIOCSPGRP,0xbfbfe660)
 80040 su       RET   ioctl 0
 80040 su       CALL  close(0x4)
 80040 su       RET   close 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigaction(0xd,0xbfbfe704,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigaction 0
 80040 su       CALL  wait4(0x138a9,0xbfbfe6e8,0x2,0)
 80040 su       RET   wait4 80041/0x138a9
 80040 su       CALL  getpgrp
 80040 su       RET   getpgrp 6052/0x17a4
 80040 su       CALL  ioctl(0x2,TIOCSPGRP,0xbfbfe660)
 80040 su       RET   ioctl 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe4d0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe4d0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x28181000,0x2000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe4f0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe4f0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x2816c000,0x2000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x2816e000,0x9000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x28177000,0xa000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe510)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe510)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x2816a000,0x2000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe530)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe530)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x28168000,0x2000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe550)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe550)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x28166000,0x2000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe530)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe530)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x28183000,0x4000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x28187000,0x18000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x2819f000,0x5000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe550)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe550)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x281a4000,0x3000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x1,0x2806baa0,0xbfbfe550)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  munmap(0x281a7000,0x2000)
 80040 su       RET   munmap 0
 80040 su       CALL  sigprocmask(0x3,0x2806bab0,0)
 80040 su       RET   sigprocmask 0
 80040 su       CALL  exit(0)

and this didn't help...

The configure script for PG was:
./configure \
  --enable-locale \
    --enable-recode \
      --with-pgport=6543 \
        --enable-cassert \
          --with-perl \
            --enable-odbc

# ./postgres --version
postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.0.3

I also tried to use pg_ctl to startup PG instance, but it silently stops:
       could not start postmaster

Thanks a lot for any helpful info.

--
Ruslan A Dautkhanov

Re: can't startup PG-8.0.3

From

Tom Lane

Date:

25 June 2005, 14:46:09

Ruslan A Dautkhanov <rusland@scn.ru> writes:
> I have experience with PostgreSQL 7.x, and I can't figure out why this
> happen. PG didn't
> say anything meaningful, that can point me why he did not start.

That's fairly unusual --- I can't think of any places where the
postmaster will exit without printing *some* complaint.

> I have a command
>     su - pgsql -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -d 5 -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data'

Shouldn't there be an & or something in there?  Seems like that will
leave the su command blocked waiting for the postmaster to exit,
which of course it should not.

> I even tries to use ktrace(1) :
>     ktrace su - pgsql -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -d 5 -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data'

That won't tell you anything --- the trace will only trace what "su" does.
Better to su to pgsql and ktrace the postmaster directly.

            regards, tom lane

Re: can't startup PG-8.0.3

From

Ruslan A Dautkhanov

Date:

27 June 2005, 03:12:42

Re: can't startup PG-8.0.3

From

Ruslan A Dautkhanov

Date:

27 June 2005, 04:36:38

Re: can't startup PG-8.0.3

From

Tom Lane

Date:

27 June 2005, 04:46:32

Ruslan A Dautkhanov <rusland@scn.ru> writes:
> Please note different values in "Latest checkpoint location" and "Prior
> checkpoint location" - is this mean
> that DB shutted down abnormally and some uncommited data exists?

No; indeed, if they were the same *then* I would worry.

            regards, tom lane