Re: [cobalt-users] Gulp! Postgresql won't start. Lost sitelist in GUI.

["Andrew Woods" <andreww@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

I had a thought on something you can try. See below.


john wrote:
> 
> While everything else seems to be fine in the GUI, I seem to have lost the
> GUI main opening screen that displays the sites.  All the sidebars and
> lower-level screens appear.  Best I can figure is that it has something to
> do with postgresql not starting following a deletion in /var/log.  postgrsql
> postgreSQL.1.gz and postgreSQL.2.gz as well as the postmaster stuff is
> there, but still when starting I get messages for admin in my mailbox that
> say:
> 
> Subject: the PostgreSQL server is not responding
> The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.
> 
> I ran:  [root init.d]# ./postgresql restart
> and got:     Shutting down PostgreSQL: not running!
>              Setting up PostgreSQL: bash: /var/log/postgresql: Permission
> denied
>              failed!
>         [root init.d]#
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