Strange error message

From: Robert(dot)Farrugia(at)go(dot)com(dot)mt
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Strange error message
Date: 2001-08-19 07:37:49
Message-ID: OFC0EAF2DF.5289CD36-ONC1256AAD.00299446@go.com.mt
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Hi to all,

During a vacuum, the message below appeared after some time doing the
command.

FATAL 2: InitRelink(logfile 347 seg 167) failed: Operation not permitted
/usr/bin/postmaster: Startup proc 22070 exited with status 512 - abort

The postmaster bombs out, and when trying to reinit, it gives again the
error. The setup is as follows, the pg_xlog is situated on another PC (win
2000) mounted using samba.

Solution to start the postmaster was to move the pg_xlog directory to
another empty one, and then user pg_resetxlog to create a new WAL log file.

Can anyone explain what this error means, and if there are any solutions ?

Regards
Robert

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