On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:23, Mike Leahy wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm not sure if my problem is due to updates, but this problem does > coincide with the 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 kernel update. On reboot, I noticed > that my PostgreSQL database service fails. However, after I login to > the Gnome desktop, I can execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start in a > conosle, and it works fine. What could cause this anomaly? I have a rather slow server box on which the postgresql init script always claimed that startup failed. However, postgresql was running quite happily with no apparent probs. I tracked it down to a timeout in the init script: /etc/init.d/postgresql, line 191-192: $SU -l postgres -c "$PGENGINE/postmaster -p '$PGPORT' -D '.blahblah......& ... sleep 2 The timeout was simply too short for postmaster to init itself on the old box (350MHz PII), and the wrapper script thought the whole thing had failed. I increased it to 6 seconds, and while the service takes a little longer to start (duh), it no longer displays an ugly red [FAILED] message. As a side note, I had to do an SElinux relabeling to get postgresql to work initially.. Why, I don't know (the system has never run with selinux turned off). Relabeling seems to be the cure way too often, when strange problems occur that seem inexplicable (before you check /var/log/audit.log). Øyvind -- < Øyvind Stegard < oyvinst at ifi uio no > < http://www.oyvind.nu/ < `Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.'
