postgress - Could not start /run any command

Posted September 28, 2014

Hi folks, i’ve experienced some issues with the installation of postgres. I already have it, but i couldnt run any command, including the “createdb”. The error message that i’ve received is: createdb: could not connect to database template1: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432”?

I have checked the conf file and it accepts connections from localhost. Could you please help on this? I have to put my site online asap.

keuchakian

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Andrew SB • September 29, 2014

From the look of it, it’s trying to connect to a socket file while the database is actually running on the localhost. Can you create a database with the following?

createdb -U dbuser -h localhost -d my_database

This command should confirm whether it is available on the localhost:

sudo netstat -plunt | grep postgres

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