On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Bart Lateur <b...@taxistop.be> wrote:
> CentOS 5.x (now 5.8), Postgres 8.4.something. Postgres had been up and > running for over a year now.**** > > ** ** > > After an update on the system, and adding mod_ssl in Apache (is this > related? No idea.), Postgres no longer starts up. It just fails silently. > “pgstartup.log” contains only one single line: **** > > ** ** > > runuser: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > I have no idea where to begin to debug this; Google only produces a > handful of results about this error message in relation to Postgres. None fix > my problem.**** > > ** ** > > Whatever I do, everything just fails quietly. As far as I can see, the > configuration files haven’t changed.**** > > ** ** > > Help? Where do I even begin to debug this? Could a complete reinstall of > Postgres and restoration of the databases help?**** > > ** ** > > -- **** > > Bart.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > Could you please, try to start the cluster using "pg_ctl" utility: Syntax: <Installation Directory>/bin/pg_ctl -D <Data Directory> start Ex:- /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/data start and then share the log file information -- Thanks & Regards, Raghu Ram Skypeid: raghu.ramedb EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
