Re: Strange PG error

Is this worth mentioning on the techdocs site?

;-)

+ Mini Me

Austin Powers wrote:
>
> Dr. Evil writes:
>
> > > pg_ctl -D /home/data start
> > pg_ctl: It seems another postmaster is running. Try to start
> > postmaster anyway.
> > pg_ctl: Cannot start postmaster. Is another postmaster is running?
> > > IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget failed (No space left on device)
>
> Did you remove the postmaster.pid file in the data directory?
>
> > key=5432015, num=16, permission=600
> > This type of error is usually caused by an improper
> > shared memory or System V IPC semaphore configuration.
> > For more information, see the FAQ and platform-specific
> > FAQ's in the source directory pgsql/doc or on our
> > web site at http://www.postgresql.org.
> > FATAL 1: InitProcGlobal: IpcSemaphoreCreate failed
>
> Run ipcclean, or a combinationof ipcs and ipcrm to remove the left over
> shared memory and/or semaphore segments.
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