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After I did
brew update
and
brew upgrade
, my postgres got some problem. I tried to uninstall postgres and install it again, but it didn't work as well.
This is the error message. (I also got this error message when I try to do
rake db:migrate
)
$ psql
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
How can I solve it?
Mac version: Mountain lion.
homebrew version: 0.9.3
postgres version: psql (PostgreSQL) 9.2.1
And this is what I did:
$ brew uninstall postgresql
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.1...
$ brew uninstall postgresql
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.4...
$ psql --version
bash: /usr/local/bin/psql: No such file or directory
$ brew install postgresql
==> Downloading http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.2.1/postgresql-9.2.1.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/postgresql-9.2.1.tar.bz2
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......
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.1: 2814 files, 38M, built in 2.7 minutes
$ initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "laigary".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
initdb: directory "/usr/local/var/postgres" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "/usr/local/var/postgres" or run initdb
with an argument other than "/usr/local/var/postgres".
$ mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
$ cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.1/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
$ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
homebrew.mxcl.postgresql: Already loaded
$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start
server starting
$ env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed pg-0.14.1
1 gem installed
$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 9.2.1
$ psql
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
Now, after I reinstalled homebrew, when I use $ psql, it doesn't show any error message.
But I run rake db:migrate in my Rails app, it shows:
could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1213:in `initialize'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1213:in `new'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1213:in `connect'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:329:in `initialize'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:28:in `new'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:28:in `postgresql_connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:309:in `new_connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:319:in `checkout_new_connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:241:in `block (2 levels) in checkout'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:236:in `loop'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:236:in `block in checkout'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:233:in `checkout'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:96:in `block in connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:95:in `connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:404:in `retrieve_connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:170:in `retrieve_connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:144:in `connection'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:107:in `rescue in create_database'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:51:in `create_database'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:40:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:40:in `each'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.8/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake:40:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:205:in `call'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:205:in `block in execute'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:200:in `each'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:200:in `execute'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:158:in `block in invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/monitor.rb:211:in `mon_synchronize'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:151:in `invoke_with_call_chain'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/task.rb:144:in `invoke'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:116:in `invoke_task'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:94:in `block (2 levels) in top_level'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:94:in `each'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:94:in `block in top_level'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:133:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:88:in `top_level'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:66:in `block in run'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:133:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rake/application.rb:63:in `run'
/usr/local/bin/rake:32:in `<main>'
Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"postgresql", "encoding"=>"unicode", "database"=>"riy_development", "pool"=>5, "username"=>nil, "password"=>nil}
Finally I've found a solution.
sudo mkdir /var/pgsql_socket/
sudo ln -s /private/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 /var/pgsql_socket/
This solution is a little tricky, but it works. Hope anyone has a better solution
Update
This works for me as well.
rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
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Had a similar problem; a pid file was blocking postgres from starting up. To fix it:
$ rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
$ brew services restart postgresql
and then all is well.
UPDATE:
For Apple M1 (Big Sur) users, do this instead:
$ rm /opt/homebrew/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
$ brew services restart postgresql
UPDATE (Nov 15 2022):
For Apple M1 / M2 (Ventura) users, just do this:
$ bundle install (just to make sure pg is installed)
$ brew services restart postgresql
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This sometimes happens when brew does a postgres upgrade, causing the data files to become incompatible with the new server.
In my case, it happened when upgrading from 9.3 to 9.4.
OS X/Homebrew:
Try running postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres -- it will give you a much more verbose output if postgres fails to start. Or open the log file at /usr/local/var/log/postgres.log (/opt/homebrew/var/log/postgres.log on Mac M1) and look for the line "FATAL: database files are incompatible with server"
In my case, running rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres && initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 removed my old databases and then reinitialized the postgres db schema. (THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA)
Thanks to https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/35240 for that solution. Full instructions for a thorough re-install can be found here: How to completely uninstall and reinstall Homebrew Postgres - Test Double Blog (Again, if you're on an M1 Mac then substitute the /opt/homebrew/var path wherever it says /usr/local/var)
After regenerating my databases (with rake db:create) everything worked fine again.
Finally, links in the comments point to this possible solution that preserves your data, but I haven't tried it: How to upgrade PostgreSQL from version 9.6 to version 10.1 without losing data - Stack Overflow
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Found a solution that worked for me here:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/75214/psql-could-not-connect-to-server-no-such-file-or-directory
You basically run the following command to manually start the server:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start
If installing and uninstalling postgres with brew doesn't work for you, look at the logs of your postgresql installation or:
postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
if you see this kind of output:
LOG: skipping missing configuration file "/usr/local/var/postgres/postgresql.auto.conf"
FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.4, which is not compatible with this version 9.6.1.
Then try the following:
rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres && initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
Then start the server:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l logfile start
Source
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On Yosemite, if the pid file is blocking Postgres from starting and you have a launchctl daemon trying (and failing) to load the database daemons, then you'll need to unload the plist file:
$ launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
Then remove the pid file
$ rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
Then reload the launchctl daemon
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
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The problem can also be attributed to a crashed process that left postmaster.pid file behind.
I do this and work's:
$ brew services stop postgresql
$ rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid # adjust path accordingly to your install
$ brew services start postgresql
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The problem is because there is already a running service on the port 5432 and we cannot establish psql socket connection through this port.
I removed the socket file
rm -rf /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432/
Then I reinitialized postgres services
postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres
This worked for me.
If it doesn't then check your postgresql.conf for unix_socket_directory change.
$ grep unix_socket /usr/local/var/postgres/postgresql.conf
#unix_socket_directory = '' # (change requires restart)
#unix_socket_group = '' # (change requires restart)
#unix_socket_permissions = 0777 # begin with 0 to use octal notation
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In my case, the trouble was caused by Mac OS updating. Upgrading PostgreSQL solved the issue.
# upgrade database version solved the trouble
$ brew postgresql-upgrade-database
However, this error is quite common and has multiple possible reasons, you shouldn’t fully rely on my solution above.
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This is actually what you are supposed to do:
you should instead look at /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
and then look at the first line of the file - this is the bad PID
ps aux | grep <PID>
for example:
ps aux | grep 12345
then do
kill <PID>
for example
kill 12345
Assuming it's still running
https://superuser.com/questions/553045/fatal-lock-file-postmaster-pid-already-exists
do not listen to the accepted answer it is bad and will corrupt your data!!!
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Changing postresql or database.yml config settings, changing $PATH, or creating symlinks were all unnecessary for me. All I needed to do was gem uninstall pg and then bundle (or gem install pg).
The issue was that the pg gem had been installed before homebrew postgres, so was picking up the settings from the version of postgres that comes with MacOS. Reinstalling it (and thus rebuilding the native extension) fixed the problem.
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This happened to me when I upgraded from 9.3.4 to 9.5 as the databases are incompatible without upgrading.
I used pg_upgrade as follows:
Stop postgres
$ brew services stop postgresql
Upgrade the databases:
$ pg_upgrade \
-d /usr/local/var/postgres \
-D /usr/local/var/postgres9.5 \
-b /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.3.4/bin/ \
-B /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.5.0/bin/ \
Archive the old databases:
$ mv /usr/local/var/postgres /usr/local/var/postgres9.3.save
$ mv /usr/local/var/postgres9.5 /usr/local/var/postgres
Restart postgres:
$ brew services start postgresql
Updated Gems (for rails / active record) :
$ gem uninstall pg
$ gem uninstall activerecord-postgresql-adapter
$ bundle install
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I faced the same problem for psql (PostgreSQL) 9.6.11.
what worked for me -
remove postmaster.pid -- rm /usr/local/var/postgresql@9.6/postmaster.pid
restart postgres -- brew services restart postgresql@9.6
If this also doesn't work then run --
sudo chmod 700 /usr/local/var/postgresql@9.6
: Specifies the host name of the machine on which the server is running.
If the value begins with a slash, it is used as the directory for the Unix-domain socket.
$ grep "port\|unix_socket" /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf
port = 5433 # (change requires restart)
unix_socket_directory = '/var/run/postgresql' # (change requires resta
$ netstat -nalp | grep postgres
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 106753 4349/postgres /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 10377 1031/postgres /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433
Run psql with -host Option
$ psql -p 5433 -h /var/run/postgresql
No need to make a soft link
This worked for me (as a mix of previous answers):
$ rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid
$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start
Source: https://coderwall.com/p/zf-fww/postgres-on-osx-with-homebrew-not-running-after-osx-crash
So i stubled upon this after the rails db:create command. Setting up the environment in a macOS Catalina 10.15.3.
First thing that i checked was the flow that got me here. After ensuring that that all things had went smoothly and there was no error that might had escaped my mind i tried the most popular solutions from here but none of the seemed to work.
So far the only error i was seeing was the
$ psql psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
So i needed some more specific information about what was happening. Due to that reason i decided to look at the postgres logfile which is located at
/usr/local/var/log/postgres.log
So after opening the log i saw this error
LOG: starting PostgreSQL 12.2 on x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0, compiled by Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17), 64-bit LOG: could not translate host name "localhost", service "5432" to address: nodename nor servname provided, or not known WARNING: could not create listen socket for "localhost" FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets LOG: database system is shut down
So this is a bit more explanatory and specific. The problem is something about that PostgreSQL cannot "see" and resolve the localhost server.
So next thing i did was to check the /etc/hosts file whose default contents should look like this:
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
After comparing the above with mine i saw that in mine this line was different and commented (!).
#::1 localhost
So i removed the # symbol in front of the line saved the file and re run the
rails db:create
and the database was succesfully initiated.
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Came across this issue too on MacOS Sierra and when we ran pg_ctl as described above we then had the following error pg_ctl: no database directory specified and environment variable PGDATA unset. So we followed the steps here which solved our issue, namely:
mkdir ~/.postgres
initdb ~/.postgres
pg_ctl -D ~/.postgres start
I got same issue because I'm using a wrong Postgres's username in code. I logged into postgres psql -d postgres and enter \du to take role name and correct Postgres's username.
So when you guys face this issue, you guys need to make sure you're using correct Postgres username, password, hostname and database...
Hope this will help anyone
If you shut down your system without quitting psql, postgres would not have removed some files.
I didn't find the file postmaster.pid in the location usr/local/var/postgres
So I did the below:
brew services start postgresql
The above command should let you start postgres
I ran into this issue after trying to restore/drop/create a db while other processes were accessing them. MacOSX/Homebrew fix was:
close all other accessing processes rails server, rails console, guard, etc...
load/unload using the commands found in brew info postgres
run restore/drop/create from before
FWIW this happened to me today, but what happened was that I was running Ubuntu updates at the time, which were likely updating Postgres. Once the update completed, I was able to connect without a hitch.
For completeness' sake, I was trying to retrieve records from the database from a Rails console:
development (main):0 > a = MyModel.find 73694
PG::ConnectionBad: 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"?
It looks like your psql doesn't run. You should run it before connect. You can do that using Postgres.app for Mac OS only. (Download and install this app http://postgresapp.com) Open the app, and you have a PostgreSQL server ready and awaiting new connections. Close the app, and the server shuts down. You also can find this info here http://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/. Hope this will help you.
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