HELP restarting postmaster

From: Anne Rose <rose(at)cs(dot)umd(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: HELP restarting postmaster
Date: 1998-12-15 15:22:10
Message-ID: 36767EA2.76761D76@cs.umd.edu
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Our server went down unexpectedly. I restarted postgres using
"postmaster -i &" but now I can't access any existing databases
or create new ones. When I run "psql blc" I get the following
error messages:

$ psql blc
IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432114,
num=16, permis
sion=600
Connection to database 'blc' failed.
pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or
while pr
ocessing the request.

Any help would be much appreciated.

-Anne Rose
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
University of Maryland

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