Re: Reproducible "Bus error" in 9.2.3 during database dump restoration (Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS)

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: "dmitry(at)koterov(dot)ru" <dmitry(at)koterov(dot)ru>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reproducible "Bus error" in 9.2.3 during database dump restoration (Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS)
Date: 2013-03-06 03:51:20
Message-ID: CAHyXU0zEtzP81bdgM0Px9woM8W0yKWuf6F62VQF3==zzvr2W1w@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> Dmitry Koterov <dmitry(at)koterov(dot)ru> wrote:
>
>> LOG: server process (PID 18705) was terminated by signal 7: Bus error
>
> So far I have only heard of this sort of error when PostgreSQL is
> running in a virtual machine and the VM software is buggy. If you
> are not running in a VM, my next two suspects would be
> hardware/BIOS configuration issues, or an antivirus product.

for posterity, what's the hardware platform? software bus errors are
more likely on non x86 hardware.

merlin

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