[cobalt-users] Re: [RaQ4] Gui Problems too!

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What happens if you shell in as root and try to start PostgreSQL manually?

/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start

Also, check the permissions on /tmp.  There is some combination of events 
that sometimes sets them wrong, making PostgreSQL unable to write files 
there and preventing it from starting up properly. On my RaQ 4r, /tmp and 
/var/tmp look like:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root     9 May 24 19:51 tmp -> /home/tmp/

and /home/tmp looks like

drwxrwxrwt  3 root  root 25600 May 28 18:35 tmp/

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Bruce Timberlake