Re: Restart after poweroutage

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: lapham(at)jandr(dot)org
Cc: aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restart after poweroutage
Date: 2006-09-26 13:27:29
Message-ID: 24641.1159277249@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jon Lapham <lapham(at)jandr(dot)org> writes:
> Is it important for you to know that at the time of the power outage, I
> *did* have 2 closed source kernel modules loaded, vmware's and NVidia's.
> (This is a development machine, not production...). Could one of
> these modules screwed up somehow and trampled on postgres's shared
> memory space? Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.

Well, that's potentially interesting. Do you have things configured to
load those automatically on boot?

> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
> key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
> 0x00000000 0 root 777 94208 0
> 0x6a6b6cbd 53411843 lapham 600 384 0
> 0x12ac1925 53444612 lapham 600 131072 0
> 0x000a1de2 41451525 lapham 600 1 0
> 0x6499077f 41484294 lapham 600 1 0

Anyone have any idea what the above entries are from? The root-owned,
world-writable one seems a bit odd in particular.

regards, tom lane

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