Thread: Can't write lock file
I have Apache and Postgres set up on a Red Hat 7.1 system. I recently added PHP in order to be able to use phpPgAdmin, and since then postgresql is no longer working. Here's a broad outlineof what I did: rpm -e PHP Downloaded and compiled PHP 4.1.2 # ./configure --with-pgsql --with-xml --with-apxs=/etc/httpd/bin/apxs recompiled apache 1.3.24 to use modules restarted apache Now I could see the phpPgAdmin page. On viewing it a 2nd time I got: You have chosen to download a file of type: application/x-httpd-php At first I thought the problem was php related, until I realized I couldn't access the database. When I tried to manually start postgresql I got the following message: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ FATAL 1: Can't write lock file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock: No space left on device I read up on this but found no satisfactory solution. Please help. Mark
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, MT wrote: > I have Apache and Postgres set up on a Red Hat 7.1 system. I recently > added PHP in order to be able to use phpPgAdmin, and since then > postgresql is no longer working. Here's a broad outlineof what I did: > > rpm -e PHP > Downloaded and compiled PHP 4.1.2 > # ./configure --with-pgsql --with-xml --with-apxs=/etc/httpd/bin/apxs > recompiled apache 1.3.24 to use modules > restarted apache > > [edited] > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ > FATAL 1: Can't write lock file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock: No space left > on device > > I read up on this but found no satisfactory solution. By this you mean that there is space left on the device? How much? It shouldn't need too much but then you want a decent amount left for use by other things. -- Nigel J. Andrews
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, MT wrote: > > > I have Apache and Postgres set up on a Red Hat 7.1 system. I recently > > added PHP in order to be able to use phpPgAdmin, and since then > > postgresql is no longer working. Here's a broad outlineof what I did: > > > > rpm -e PHP > > Downloaded and compiled PHP 4.1.2 > > # ./configure --with-pgsql --with-xml --with-apxs=/etc/httpd/bin/apxs > > recompiled apache 1.3.24 to use modules > > restarted apache > > > > [edited] > > > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ > > FATAL 1: Can't write lock file /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock: No space left > > on device > > > > I read up on this but found no satisfactory solution. > > By this you mean that there is space left on the device? How much? It shouldn't > need too much but then you want a decent amount left for use by other things. Please note that you have to have free data blocks AND free inodes in the directory tree. I had an ext partition that ran out of inodes in the directory tree, and couldn't write to the mounted partition, even though it was only about 20% full at the time (lots of small files) Also, many file systems reserve some small amount for root use only (about 1 to 5%) so your drive may look like this: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 27886048 27328327 557721 98% /mnt/28g And still report being out of room.