I just upgraded to 7.0.3 and tried to start the backend like

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -B 256 -o '-S 10240 -s' -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data -i > /usr/local/pgsql/postgres.log 2>&1 &

.. as I've done with 7.0.2, it failed to start and got this in my
postgresql.log :

DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting up at Sun Nov 12 18:20:04 2000
FATAL 2:  Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2
FATAL 2:  Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2
Startup failed - abort

The only compilation change I made was to increase BLCKSZ to 32k (which has
been running in a production 7.0.2 environment for quite some time).

So what's up? Just to make sure I made the permissions 777 all the way down
to pg_control but it had no effect.

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Hmm, I just re-installed 7.0.2 and I get the same error with it -- not good.

My development server, which is virtually the same, did fine when I
installed 7.0.3 so I'm guessing it's not a problem across the board..

I also notice in the log that it's Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control")
that's failing and when I move pg_control out of the way, it's Open() that
fails..

I did nothing but stop the postmaster, compile and install 7.0.3 and start
the postmaster. then compiled and installed 7.0.2 again and all of the
sudden the 7.0.2 or 7.0.3 backend doesn't start -- it makes no sense.

As always, any help is appreciated. Thanks!

-Mitch


Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:57:37 -0800
"Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net>
7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem
"Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> writes:
> DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting up at Sun Nov 12 18:20:04 2000
> FATAL 2:  Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2
> FATAL 2:  Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2
> Startup failed - abort

> The only compilation change I made was to increase BLCKSZ to 32k (which has
> been running in a production 7.0.2 environment for quite some time).

This case should now deliver a more reasonable error message in current
sources, ie, something about BLCKSZ mismatch...

			regards, tom lane

Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:41:11 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem 