Comment # 30 on bug 906900 from Michael Schlueter

> Finally, I've found that the stop command in the init script was not even
> executed because:
> if pg_ctl status -s -D $DATADIR >/dev/null
> 
> fails with:
> 
> pg_ctl: no server running
> 
> Michael, I need to check wheter it is the same on your machine.
> Can you please add the command:
Yes, same thing here (see also comment #5). I will attach the requested logs.
I also added a "ps -ef | grep postgres" to the stop section. It shows, that at
that point in time, no postgres process is alive anymore (see ps.out).