Replica is stuck waiting for
It looks like the standby doesn't successfully connect to the master.

In order to be able to use the streaming replication, the master needs to have enough WALs in the streaming buffer that it can send to the standby. 
Since you're not using log shipping, it needs to store all the logs from when you started the backup to when the standby has been started.

You can control the number of WAL's stored in the buffer by setting wal_keep_segments to a high enough value.

You should also make sure that max_wal_senders is set to the number of standby servers you have.

However, it is always best to have the WAL restore set as a backup for when the streaming replication doesn't work for any reason. You can achieve that by setting the archive_command in postgresql.conf and the restore_command in recovery.conf

For instance like this, assuming that /pgsql/backups/archive_logs is mounted as a nfs share accessible on both servers:

archive_command = 'cp %p /pgsql/backups/archive_logs/%f'
restore_command = 'cp /pgsql/backups/archive_logs/%f %p'