PostgreSQL (Windows XP) will not start

[BigKeeya]

I haven't made an changes that I can think of (except for installing my wireless printer), but as of yesterday my Postgre 8.2 will not start. I've checked that
listen_addresses = 'local host'
port = 5432
max_connections = 100

I tried configuring and then just shutting down my firewall (Zonealarm). I still can't get the server to start and it worked perfectly fine yesterday.

I get this message from pgAdmin win I tried to connect through that program:

"could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432?"

I've tried everything I can think of, restarting, checking the configuration, disabling the firewall, etc. I've found similar posting, but no solution. Does anyone have any suggestions.

 

[stefanwagner]

listen_addresses = 'local host'

Is that standard on windows? local host with a blank inside?

Do you see postgresql running in the taskmanager?

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[BigKeeya]

My apologies. I accidentally added a space to "local host" in my thread, but not in the postgre settings. No postgre is not running in the taskmanager. I've tried starting the service, but to no avail.

 

[stefanwagner]

What errormessage do you get when you start the service?
Did you visit your logfile?
Did you try to start it from a command shell, to see errormessages immedeately ("no space left on device" for instance, which will never get into a logfile)?

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[BigKeeya]

Problem solved. I uninstalled and reinstalled. I didn't do this most obvious solution earlier because I was afraid of losing all my data. Uninstalling doesn't delete the data, so when I reinstalled, everything works like it used to.