Re: initdb fails with invalid argument to shmat

From: mike g <mike(at)thegodshalls(dot)com>
To: Kevin Marth <kem1(at)peoplepc(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb fails with invalid argument to shmat
Date: 2004-07-01 03:54:38
Message-ID: 1088654078.20010.26.camel@localhost.localdomain
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-cygwin

What version of windows is this on and are you trying to run it as a
service?

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 00:13, Kevin Marth wrote:
> I am using Cygwin 1.5.10-3 and postgresql 7.4.3-1 freshly downloaded and installed from scratch earlier today.
>
> I have set CYGWIN=server and started cygserver (from the default account).
>
> I receive the following when I execute "initdb -D /home/default/data --debug". Can someone set me straight? I don't see this particular problem in the archives. Thanks.
>
> ================
>
> Running in debug mode.
>
> initdb: internal variables:
> PGDATA=/home/default/data
> datadir=/usr/share/postgresql
> PGPATH=/usr/bin
> ENCODING=
> ENCODINGID=0
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=default
> POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki
> POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.description
> POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
> PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample
> PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.sample
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "default".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /home/default/data... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/base... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/global... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /home/default/data/base/1... DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1081344)
> FATAL: shmat(id=983040) failed: Invalid argument
> DEBUG: proc_exit(1)
> DEBUG: shmem_exit(1)
> DEBUG: exit(1)
>
>
> ________________________________________
> PeoplePC Online
> A better way to Internet
> http://www.peoplepc.com
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org

In response to

Browse pgsql-cygwin by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message David Riggs 2004-07-01 07:23:17 sygserver fails with "failed to create named pipe, fatal error on IPC transport"
Previous Message mike g 2004-07-01 03:44:35 Re: Upgrade 7.4.1 to 7.4.3 not working