Linux Mint (from Ubuntu) version 9.1. Postgres will no longer start, but I cannot find out why.
Command line: $ /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/pg_ctl start -D /home/postgresql/9.1/main -l /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log -s -w -o '-c config_file="/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf"' pg_ctl: could not start server Examine the log output. There is no error message in the log: 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: postgres: PostmasterMain: initial environment dump: 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: ----------------------------------------- 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: MAIL=/var/mail/postgres 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: USER=postgres 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_TIME=C 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: SHLVL=1 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: HOME=/var/lib/postgresql 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=4464da00797efbf61ba9be4b517969c3-1375997124.817437-835692463 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_MONETARY=C 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: COLORTERM=mate-terminal 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: PG_GRANDPARENT_PID=15848 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LOGNAME=postgres 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: _=/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/pg_ctl 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: TERM=xterm 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: PGLOCALEDIR=/usr/share/locale 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: PGSYSCONFDIR=/etc/postgresql-common 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_ADDRESS=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/postgres 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: DISPLAY=:0 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_TELEPHONE=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: XAUTHORITY=/home/olly/.Xauthority 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: SHELL=/bin/bash 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: PWD=/var/lib/postgresql 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_NUMERIC=C 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: PGDATA=/home/postgresql/9.1/main 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: ----------------------------------------- 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: TZ "localtime" gets max score 5200 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: TZ "Singapore" scores 0: at 1357776000 2013-01-10 08:00:00 std versus 2013-01-10 01:00:00 std 2013-08-08 21:35:33 GMT DEBUG: TZ "GMT" scores 0: at 1357776000 2013-01-10 00:00:00 std versus 2013-01-10 01:00:00 std ...[many lines of timezone info deleted]... 2013-08-08 21:35:34 GMT DEBUG: TZ "Atlantic/St_Helena" scores 0: at 1357776000 2013-01-10 00:00:00 std versus 2013-01-10 01:00:00 std 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32399360) 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: removing file "pg_notify/0000" 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 985, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 5 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: logger shutting down 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: shmem_exit(0): 0 callbacks to make 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: proc_exit(0): 0 callbacks to make 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: exit(0) 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: shmem_exit(-1): 0 callbacks to make 2013-08-08 23:35:34 CEST DEBUG: proc_exit(-1): 0 callbacks to make # cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 33554432 I increased this to 64Mb # cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 67108864 but it made no difference
