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mehulved

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Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 2

Postgresql fails to start

I have installed postgresql using pacman. And followed the wiki to get started. But, I got stuck at starting the server. Whenever I do

rc.d start postgresql

This is what shows up in the logs and postgresql fails to start.

FATAL:  input in flex scanner failed

It's a new install and nothing has been edited except commenting out the PGLOG and PGROOT from /etc/conf.d/postgresql.

# pacman -Q postgresql
postgresql 9.1.4-1

mehulved

Member

Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 2

Re: Postgresql fails to start

It probably had something to do with my locale settings. I removed all the postgresql files, changed locale to en_US.UTF-8 and reinstalled postgresql. This fixed the problem. It is running now.