Thread: About "lock file postmaster.pid" Error , cannot setup postmaster

Hello all,

I met a  problem about cannot start postmaster.

The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:

FATAL:  lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already exists

Thanks in advance,
Emi

From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
> The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
> server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
> successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
> postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:
>
> FATAL:  lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already
exists

did you try to rm /usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid ?

gnari

Thank you gnari,

I deleted the postmaster.pid and /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock files; now it
works :)


gnari wrote:

>From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
>
>
>>The situation I met is that I was running postmaster, but because of the
>>server closed all my konsole. As a result, I did not shutdown postmaster
>>successfully. Next time, when I tried to run
>>postmaster -D /usr/local/postgresql/data, I got the following error:
>>
>>FATAL:  lock file "/usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid" already
>>
>>
>exists
>
>did you try to rm /usr/local/postgresql/data/postmaster.pid ?
>
>gnari
>
>
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