Thread: Server not starting problem

On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 11:44 -0200, Pablo Fulco wrote:
> Hi all, im very new to postgres, and im having a problem with postgres 8.1.
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> The thing is that the server wont start, when I checked the log it said:
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> Received fast shutdown request
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> Aborting any active transaction
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> FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command
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> FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command
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> FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command
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> FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command
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> FATAL: terminating connection due ti administrator command
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> Shutting down
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> Database system is shutdown
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> Logger shutting down
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> When I log into de pgAdminIII the server appears with a red cross, when I
> try to connect it sais "server doesn't listen"
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> On the event viewer I have errors that say:
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> FATAL: syntax error in file c:/program
> files/postgresql/8.1/data/postgresql.conf" line 435, near token "MB"
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> In line 435 of the conf file I have shared_buffers = 256MB
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> When I check the services running, I have the postgresql server stopped,
> when I try to start it it says it started but stopped because it had no work
> to do????????
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> Any suggestions? I would really appreciate it
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You cannot use units in your configuration with the 8.1 release. Units
are available with the 8.2 release.


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