Re: InitDB: Bad system call

On 9 August 2010 12:56, Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i've just compiled a new Jail at my FreeBDS 7.0-STABLE machine and trying to
> get PostgreSQL 9.0 Beta 4 running. Compiling etc works fine.
>
> But when i call the initdb, i get "Bad System Call" messages. Here is the
> output:
>
> $ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -d
> Running in debug mode.
> VERSION=9.0beta4
> PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
> share_path=/usr/local/pgsql/share
> PGPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres
> POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgres.bki
> POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgres.description
> POSTGRES_SHDESCR=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgres.shdescription
> POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/local/pgsql/share/postgresql.conf.sample
> PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/local/pgsql/share/pg_hba.conf.sample
> PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/local/pgsql/share/pg_ident.conf.sample
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "postgres".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
> The default database encoding has accordingly been set to SQL_ASCII.
> The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> Bad system call (core dumped)
> 400kB
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... Bad system
> call (core dumped)
> child process exited with exit code 140
> initdb: removing contents of data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
>
> There is no further message in /var/log/messages.
>
> First i believed this is an error relating to SYSVSHM-, SYSVSEM-,
> SYSVMSG-options or User-Id (http://www.freebsddiary.org/jail-multiple.php).
> But the postgres-user has a user-id which is not used by other
> postgres-instances in other jails. And the other options are enabled in the
> root-instance.
>
> I also tried to build postgres from a fresh portstree, to make sure, that i
> have nothing miss-"./configure"d, but there are the same problems.
>
> I have no clue, what the problem is. Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
> Torsten
>
> --

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/kernel-resources.html
and the section under NetBSD/OpenBSD.

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Thom Brown
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