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Postgresql for Ambari not starting

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Dec 24 19:45:45 tspanndev13.field.hortonworks.com systemd[1]: Failed to start PostgreSQL database server. -- Subject: Unit postgresql.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit postgresql.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Dec 24 19:45:45 tspanndev13.field.hortonworks.com systemd[1]: Unit postgresql.service entered failed state. Dec 24 19:45:45 tspanndev13.field.hortonworks.com systemd[1]: postgresql.service failed. Dec 24 19:45:45 tspanndev13.field.hortonworks.com polkitd[2452]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:4241:769952344 (system bus name :1.8767, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authent [root@tspannde

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@Timothy Spann

You may be running into an SELinux issue. Tail /var/log/messages when you try to start Postgresql to see if you can get more information on the problem.

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had to uninstall ambari

Then I manually installed postgresql, chmod on the directories and ran sysctl enable and started postgresql