Re: postmaster service now fails to start under win2k

Hey guys,

Thank you for all your help so far, I really appreciate it, still a few
problems though +). As for the permissions to the data directory (thanks
Dave), I had been setting them with chown, and apparently this was not
working properly. When I tried out your suggestion for logging Cedric, the
log file immediately showed a Permission denied error, which I fixed by
logging into windows as the postgres user and then running initdb to create
the data dirs.

Now that I have this logfile to browse, I am yet again confused as to the
behavior of the postmaster service. With everything set up to run as
Administrator, I have no errors still, but when I set up for postgres, the
service will not start and the log reads as follows (I apologize for the
longishness of the text):
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$ cat /home/postgres/err.log
IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1441792, 03600) failed: Not enough
memory

This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared
memory segment exceeded available memory or swap space.
To reduce the request size (currently 1441792 bytes), reduce
PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 64) and/or
its max_connections parameter (currently 32).

The PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide contains more information about
shared memory configuration.
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I checked out the Administrator's Guide on the web and I didn't see anything
very clear relating to Cygwin on this topic; is there anything important
there that I'm missing? Regardless, I'm confused as to why a system resource
problem would affect one user running a process but not another.


Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cedric Dufour (Cogito Ergo Soft)"
<cedric.dufour@cogito-ergo-soft.com>
To: "Brian Babey" <bbabey@openroadsconsulting.com>; "pgsql-cygwin"
<pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] postmaster service now fails to start under win2k


> Hello Brian,
>
> Have you tried starting your service using "cygrunsrv ... --stderr <your
log
> file>" (where <your log file> is any file where the user launching the
> service can read/write) ? There is much useful information about why
> postmaster would fail starting is this file (such as directory permission
> errors, lock file errors, and so on).
>
> Hope it might help.
>
> Cedric Dufour
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-cygwin-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-cygwin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Dave Page
> > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 16:25
> > To: Brian Babey; Jean-Marc Paulin; pgsql-cygwin
> > Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] postmaster service now fails to start under win2k
> >
> >
> > Does your postgres user have read/write permissions on your data
> > directory?
> >
> > Regards, Dave.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Brian Babey [mailto:bbabey@openroadsconsulting.com]
> > > Sent: 12 August 2002 15:22
> > > To: Jean-Marc Paulin; pgsql-cygwin
> > > Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] postmaster service now fails to start
> > > under win2k
> > >
> > >
> > > Jean-Marc,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion, but the .pid file doesn't appear
> > > to be the problem. While the service is running (as
> > > Administrator), postmaster.pid is there, and when I stop the
> > > service, it goes away. I can then start the service back up
> > > again as Administrator and it runs fine, but when I try to
> > > install it to run as 'postgres' it will not start at all.
> > >
> > > Any other ideas?
> > >
> > > -Brian
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jean-Marc Paulin" <jmp@micromuse.com>
> > > To: "Brian Babey" <bbabey@openroadsconsulting.com>;
> > > "pgsql-cygwin" <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 4:12 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] postmaster service now fails to start
> > > under win2k
> > >
> > >
> > > > if I remember well, pgsql creates a postmaster.pid file
> > > that you may
> > > > need
> > > to
> > > > remove before you can restart pgsql.
> > > >
> > > > HTH
> > > >
> > > > JM
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Brian Babey" <bbabey@openroadsconsulting.com>
> > > > To: "pgsql-cygwin" <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
> > > > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:02 PM
> > > > Subject: [CYGWIN] postmaster service now fails to start under win2k
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > >
> > > > > Background: Cygwin 1.3.10(0.51/3/2), PostgreSQL 7.2.1
> > > > >
> > > > > I had been running ipc-daemon and postmaster as NT services for
> > > > > about a month with no problems. I followed the install
> > > instructions
> > > > > provided in
> > > > the
> > > > > READMEs with Cygwin, installing postmaster to run as an
> > > NT service
> > > > > as
> > > the
> > > > > user 'postgres', and running initdb as Administrator
> > > since I can't
> > > > > seem
> > > to
> > > > > switch context to postgres.
> > > > >
> > > > > As I said this has worked fine for me up until a couple days ago
> > > > > after I installed Service Pack 3. When the machine came up from
> > > > > rebooting, postmaster did not start, and in the Application Event
> > > > > Log I had this
> > > > error:
> > > > >
> > > > > starting service `postmaster' failed: execv: 1, Not owner.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I was unable to manually start the service or use 'net start
> > > postmaster',
> > > > it
> > > > > just quit with the same message. I looked on the archives
> > > here and
> > > > > saw a recommendation to change the password of the
> > > postgres user and
> > > > > reinstall
> > > > the
> > > > > service, but I had the same result. The only way I could get it
> > > > > working
> > > > was
> > > > > to reinstall the service to run as 'Administrator' and give him
> > > privileges
> > > > > to logon as a service. I'd rather not attach this to the
> > > > > Administrator account though.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong? I tend to
> > > think either
> > > > > the reboot after SP3 didn't shut down the service gracefully or
> > > > > maybe there
> > > > was
> > > > > security update in the service pack that finally enforced the
> > > discrepancy
> > > > in
> > > > > ownership between the /usr/share/postgresql/data directory
> > > (Administrator)
> > > > > and the service (postgres). Regardless, I would
> > > appreciate any help
> > > > > or advice on this problem!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Brian
> > > > >