Cannot get Postgresql to start on Ubuntu Hardy
- by Greg Arcara
I am getting this error with Postgresql 8.4 on Ubuntu Hardy:
$./postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Cannot assign requested address
HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost"
FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets
Here is my hosts file content (been finding a lot of stuff about this so just posting it now:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 Home-Dev