Clustered postgres-8 resource fails to start with "PID File Exists For postgres-8:<name>" in RHEL 5 or 6
Issue
- When I reboot a node and it tries to start the
postgres-8
resource, it fails with "PID File Exists"
Nov 19 15:11:40 node1 clurgmgrd: [5254]: <err> Checking Non-Existence of PID File /var/run/cluster/postgres-8/postgres-8:Postgres.pid [postgres-8:Postgres] > Failed - PID File Exists For postgres-8:Postgres
Nov 19 15:11:40 node1 clurgmgrd: [5254]: <err> Starting Service postgres-8:Postgres > Failed
Nov 19 15:11:40 node1 clurgmgrd[5254]: <notice> start on postgres-8 "Postgres" returned 1 (generic error)
Nov 19 15:11:40 node1 clurgmgrd[5254]: <warning> #68: Failed to start service:myDB; return value: 1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 or 6 with the High Availability Add On
- RHEL 5:
rgmanager
(any release) - RHEL 6:
resource-agents
prior to release3.9.2-40.el6
rgmanager
- One or more services with a
postgres-8
resource in/etc/cluster/cluster.conf
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