From: "Ying Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org