Unable to connect to postgres

[eduardabalbinot]

I’m having the same issue as listed above and on another topics.
I’ve tried the solutions included in this current topic and the 2 others below, but neither of them have worked.

Unable to connect to postgres

Hi, I’m building the appointment scheduler and for a few days now I’ve been getting this message when I try to connect to psql: codeally@c57ab2b73578:~/project$ psql --username=freecodecamp dbname=postgres psql: error: connection to server on socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432” failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? In the other terminal I get some equivalent message when trying to run my bash script. Is this a proble…

Getting psql:error all of a sudden

codeally@8576f6138a56:~/project$ psql -U postgres < periodic_table.sql psql: error: connection to server on socket “/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432” failed: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket? Does this mean that the server used to connect to the database is down? I was coding element.sh when I got a message stating that element.sh could not be saved… So I copied my code to a backup location. Did I code something that crashed th…

It started all of a sudden yesterday, when I was working on Build a Mario Database lesson. I’ve waited until today to see if it wasn’t a bug that would be patched, but until now I keep getting the same error.

When following the step 2 on the comment below, I get a Bad command error.

@moT01

sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /var/lib/postgresql/12/main