Re: initdb failing on win xp

dave passudetti wrote:
> I installed ipc-daemon2 as an NT service successfully
>
> A problem came when I ran initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data
>
> The following resulted:
>
> 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.
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/share/postgresql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1...
> FATAL: coul
> d not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600).
>
> initdb: failed

This might sound silly, but did you remember to start the ipc-daemon
service? That is normally what this error is relating too.

--
David Mitchell
Software Engineer
Telogis

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