Re: [GENERAL] Server crashed, now cannot start postgres [FIXED]

2016-09-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Tom Lane wrote: Hmm, AFAIK that's what it should be out of the box. Certainly on my RHEL6 machine I see Until I make the time to upgrade this host from Slackware-14.1 to -14.2 the kernel is 3.10.17-smp. Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgr

Re: [GENERAL] Server crashed, now cannot start postgres [FIXED]

2016-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Shepard writes: >Yes, it's a linux box. And /dev/shm/ does have incorrect permissions > (755). Thanks to your response I remembered that chromium does not run until > I follow its advice to chmod 1777 /dev/shm. Sure enough, chromium would not > load. >So, I changed the perms on /dev/s

Re: [GENERAL] Server crashed, now cannot start postgres [FIXED]

2016-09-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Tom Lane wrote: A look at the code suggests this is shm_open() returning EACCES. Not sure why that's happening. If this is a Linux box, maybe the permissions on /dev/shm are bollixed? Tom, Yes, it's a linux box. And /dev/shm/ does have incorrect permissions (755). Thank

Re: [GENERAL] Server crashed, now cannot start postgres

2016-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Shepard writes: >Tried to compile 3 large programs at one time and the CPU overheated, > shutting down the server. Now when I try to start postgres-9.5.4 (as the > superuser, postgres) I get this result: > postgres@salmo:~$ postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data/ & > [1] 14544 > postgres@sa

[GENERAL] Server crashed, now cannot start postgres

2016-09-12 Thread Rich Shepard
Tried to compile 3 large programs at one time and the CPU overheated, shutting down the server. Now when I try to start postgres-9.5.4 (as the superuser, postgres) I get this result: postgres@salmo:~$ postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data/ & [1] 14544 postgres@salmo:~$ FATAL: could not open shar