Re: Strange PG error

From: Austin Powers <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Dr(dot) Evil" <drevil(at)sidereal(dot)kz>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange PG error
Date: 2001-04-29 09:31:47
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0104291130050.759-100000@peter.localdomain
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Dr. Evil writes:

> > pg_ctl -D /home/data start
> pg_ctl: It seems another postmaster is running. Try to start
> postmaster anyway.
> pg_ctl: Cannot start postmaster. Is another postmaster is running?
> > IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget failed (No space left on device)

Did you remove the postmaster.pid file in the data directory?

> key=5432015, num=16, permission=600
> This type of error is usually caused by an improper
> shared memory or System V IPC semaphore configuration.
> For more information, see the FAQ and platform-specific
> FAQ's in the source directory pgsql/doc or on our
> web site at http://www.postgresql.org.
> FATAL 1: InitProcGlobal: IpcSemaphoreCreate failed

Run ipcclean, or a combinationof ipcs and ipcrm to remove the left over
shared memory and/or semaphore segments.

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