Psql could not connect to server No such file or directory 5432 error

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I m trying to run psql on my Vagrant machine  but I get this error   psql  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     Note  Vagrant 1 9 2 Box  ubuntu trusty64  https   atlas hashicorp com ubuntu boxes trusty64  EDIT Commands I ve used in order to install and run postgres    sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install postgresql sudo su postgres psql -d postgres -U postgres

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I had similar problems just a while ago  After trying more than 5 suggestions I decided to go back to the basics and start from the beginning  Which meant removing my postgresql installation and following this guide upon re-installing postgresql  https   help ubuntu com lts serverguide postgresql html

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In my case  I had to run journalctl -xe  and it showed that my disk was full  I then deleted some  gz items from  var log and I could again restart the postgresql

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I am just posting this for anyone who is feeling lost and hopeless as I did when I found this question  It seems that sometimes by editing some psotgresql-related config files  one can accidentally change the permissions of the file   Note how pg hba conf belongs to root  and users cannot even read it  This causes postgres to not be able to open this file and therefore not be able to start the server  throwing the error seen in the original question  By running sudo chmod  r pg hba conf  I was able to make this file once again accessible to the postgres user and then after running sudo service postgresql start  Was able to get the server running again

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I got this error when I restored my database from last pg basebackup backup file  After that when I tried to connect database psql   I was getting the same error  The error was resolved  when I updated pg hba conf file and wherever  peer  authentication was there I replaced that with  md5  and then restarted postgres services  After that  the problem was resolved

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I occasionally have the same issue but mostly after macOS upgrades  Shutting down and migrating to the new version usually fixes it for me make changes according to your version   So first upgrade your postgresql brew services stop postgresql 12 brew services start postgresql 12 brew postgresql-upgrade-database  This is mostly a temporary fix but since I couldn t find a better solution this works for me  Update  If the issue says that another postmaster is running then try removing it from that location your postmaster pid location will be displayed to you  rm  usr local var postgres postmaster pid

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I ve had this same issue  related to the configuration of my pg hba conf file  located in  etc postgresql 9 6 main   Please note that 9 6 is the postgresql version I am using   The error itself is related to a misconfiguration of postgresql  which causes the server to crash before it starts   I would suggest following these instructions    Certify that postgresql service is running  using sudo service postgresql start  Run pg lsclusters from your terminal Check what is the cluster you are running  the output should be something like   Version - Cluster   Port Status Owner    Data directory   9 6  -------  main --   5432 online postgres  var lib postgresql 9 6 main     Disregard the  ---  signs  as they are being used there only for alignment    The important information are the version and the cluster  You can also check whether the server is running or not in the status column   Copy the info from the version and the cluster  and use like so   pg ctlcluster  lt version gt   lt cluster gt  start  so in my case  using version 9 6 and cluster  main   it would be pg ctlcluster 9 6 main start If something is wrong  then postgresql will generate a log  that can be accessed on  var log postgresql postgresql- lt version gt -main log  so in my case  the full command would be sudo nano  var log postgresql postgresql-9 6-main log  The output should show what is the error       2017-07-13 16 53 04 BRT  32176-1  LOG   invalid authentication method  all     2017-07-13 16 53 04 BRT  32176-2  CONTEXT   line 90 of configuration file   etc postgresql 9 5 main pg hba conf     2017-07-13 16 53 04 BRT  32176-3  FATAL   could not load pg hba conf  Fix the errors and restart postgresql service through sudo service postgresql restart and it should be fine    I have searched a lot to find this  credit goes to this post   Best of luck

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If non of the above answers are not working for you  then please try this one  Many people have mentioned many solutions to this problem  But all of them forgot that  the same problem will arise when your disk don t have enough space or the space you are assigned for postgres is full  Check your system storage  if its full free up some space  then restart your postgres by sudo service postgresql restart or do a stop and start sudo service posgresql stop then sudo service postgresql start  This will solve the issue  it solved for me

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In my case it was the lockfile postmaster id that was not deleted properly during the last system crash that caused the issue  Deleting it with sudo rm  usr local var postgres postmaster pid and restarting Postgres solved the problem

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FATAL   could not load server certificate file  quot  etc ssl certs ssl-cert-snakeoil pem quot   No such file or directory LOG   database system is shut down pg ctl  could not start server  I have a missing ssl-cert-snakeoil pem file so i created it using make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite And it worked fine

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WARNING  This will remove the database Use command  rm -rf  usr local var postgres  amp  amp  initdb  usr local var postgres -E utf8

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This error happened to me after my mac mini got un-plugged  so forced shutdown   and all I had to do to fix it was restart

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I had the same issue but non of the answers here helped   How I fixed it  mac    Try to start postgresql with pg ctl -D  usr local var postgres start  Look for the Error Message that says something like FATAL  could not open directory  pg tblspc   No such file or directory  Create that missing directory mkdir  usr local var postgres pg tblspc Repeat from step one until you created all missing directories When done and then trying to start postgresql again it might say FATAL  lock file  postmaster pid  already exists Delete postmaster pid  rm  usr local var postgres postmaster pid Start postgres with  pg ctl -D  usr local var postgres start Done

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I had the same error when I create the SQL db in a VM  I had changed the default value of  etc postgresql 9 3 main postgresql conf shared buffers   200MB to 75  of my total RAM  Well  I forgot to actually allocate that RAM in the VM  When I gave the command to make a new database  I received the same error   Powered off  gave the baby its bottle  RAM  and presto  it worked

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The same thing happened to me as I had changed something in the  etc hosts file  After changing it back to 127 0 0 1 localhost it worked for me

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These two steps solved it for me on Mac  rm  usr local var postgres postmaster pid brew services restart postgresql  EDIT  In case you face this issue  reported by  luckyguy73   psql  FATAL  database  quot postgresql quot  does not exist You can run brew postgresql-upgrade-database  to fix it

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I recommend you should clarify port that postgres  In my case I didn t know which port postgres was running on   lsof -i   grep  post    then you can know which port is listening   psql -U postgres -p  port in use    with port option  might be answer  you can use psql

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WARNING  This will remove the database Within zsh  rm -rf  usr local var postgres  amp  amp  initdb  usr local var postgres -E utf8  This is the only thing that worked for me after countless hours trouble shooting

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I was able to solve the issue by running   sudo systemctl start postgresql 9 5-main

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This works for me   pg ctl -D  usr local var postgresql 9 6 stop  brew services stop postgresql 9 6  brew services start postgresql 9 6

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I have the same issue with postgres 11 on my mac  I get this error every time after restart   psql  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     As a temporary fix I do  brew services stop postgresql 11 brew services start postgresql 11

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just reinstall your pgsql with direct version sudo apt-get install postgresql-9 5  u must remove the package before install new one

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Does the  etc postgresql 9 6 main postgresql conf show that port being assigned  On my default Xubuntu Linux install  mine showed port   5433 for some reason as best as I can remember  but I did comment out the line in that same file that said listen addresses    localhost  and uncommented the line listen addresses        So maybe start and check there  Hope that helps

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I m on Kali Linux   I had to remove the brew version of postgresql with brew uninstall postgresql sudo -u postgres psql got me into root postgres

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Open your database manager and execute this script  update pg database set datallowconn    true  where datname    your database name

[postgresql] Psql could not connect to server: No such file or directory, 5432 error?

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