BitmapCake!

I have been doing a lot of work with Postgresql recently including replication, clustering, automatic failovers and so on. During one of my tests, I came through this situation where I tried to restart Postgresql server and it shows the server is started, but if I check the status of it, it is always shown as down, and I was unable to connect to it.

After doing everything I could, I felt this could be something related to the start up process, and remembered I disabled the starting of the Postgresql server while setting up the pacemaker cluster. So that was it. I just changed "disabled" to "auto" and it started the service :)

Just run the following.

echo auto > /etc/postgresql/9.6/main/start.conf

and start the server.

service postgresql start

One other thing you could try is, see if you have enough space left on your disks. That could also be a reason for Postgresql to not start, although it wasn't the case with me.

Check the disk space with following command.

df -h

I hope this will be useful for someone :)

If you are using Ubuntu 15 or any higher version, you can use the systemctl command to enable or disable services. But before Ubuntu 15, it is not available.

So here is an alternate way to do the same in earlier versions like Ubuntu 14.04. I recently wanted the same and thought of writing it down here for my own reference as well as a help for those who looking for it.

Enter the following command along with the service name you want.

update-rc.d -f <service> remove
You can use the following command to get a list of services running in your server.

service --status-all
I hope this will be useful to someone :) Please don't forget to leave a comment if you know any better way.

I had this problem with Ubuntu for a long time and I've been looking for a solution that works. After trying out many different things, I finally found something that really worked and I thought I should share it in my blog for my future reference as well as a help for those who looking for it.

If your running a x64 bit Ubuntu or other Linux and find USB transfers hang at the end apply this fix:

echo $((16*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes
echo $((48*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes

I suggest you edit your /etc/rc.local file to make this change persistant across reboots.

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Go to the bottom of the file and leave a space then paste in those two lines.

Save the file with ctrl + x then press y.

To revert the changes enter this in console and remove the lines in /etc/rc.local

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes

More info and references: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107703/why-is-my-pc-freezing-while-im-copying-a-file-to-a-pendrive/107722#107722


Source: https://gist.github.com/2E0PGS/f63544f8abe69acc5caaa54f56efe52f

I directly copied it from the above github gist.

Honestly I don't have any idea about the properties which are set above, and I didn't even do any research on them. However it seems working and shows the real copying progess, and doesn't hang at the end of the copying.