The postgresql service fails to start while restoring Red Hat Satellite backup with error Service[postgresqld]/ensure: change from 'stopped' to 'running' failed: Systemd start for postgresql failed!

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Issue

  • The postgresql service fails to start while restoring Red Hat Satellite 6.11 server on RHEL-8 with below error.

    # systemctl status postgresql
    ● postgresql.service - PostgreSQL database server
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/postgresql.service.d
              └─postgresql.conf
      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-08-01 00:00:00 PDT; 1min 1s ago
    Main PID: 123456 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    
    Aug 01 00:00:00 satellite systemd[1]: Starting PostgreSQL database server...
    Aug 01 00:00:00 satellite systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
    Aug 01 00:00:00 satellite systemd[1]: postgresql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    Aug 01 00:00:00 satellite systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL database server.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.11
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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