Fedora postgresql not starting

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Hi,

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Ulrich Wisser wrote:

I installed the latest postgresql packages on my Fedora Core 3 box.

Is it Red Hat RPMs or RPMs? 8.0.1 or 7.4.7?

PG will not start, even initdb on a new directory fails. Any ideas what could
be wrong? Any ideas how to debug?

Maybe there is an old database version, previously installed on your box.
If it's 8.0.X, check /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_log directory for the logs. If
you are using 7.4.x, then edit postgresql init script and define PGLOG
variable (It's /dev/null by default) to /var/lib/pgsql and restart
postgresql, so that it will make some output to log file and you can debug
it.

Regards,
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Devrim GUNDUZ
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Ulrich Wisser <ulrich.wisser@relevanttraffic.se> writes:

I installed the latest postgresql packages on my Fedora Core 3 box.
PG will not start, even initdb on a new directory fails. Any ideas what
could be wrong? Any ideas how to debug?

Define "latest" --- an exact RPM version number would be useful. We've
made several rounds of fixes to get it to play nice with SELinux. My
guess is that you are hitting a SELinux enforcement problem, but without
more details about exactly what you're trying, it's impossible to be
specific.

regards, tom lane