Re: initdb fails with invalid argument to shmat

What version of windows is this on and are you trying to run it as a
service?


On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 00:13, Kevin Marth wrote:
> I am using Cygwin 1.5.10-3 and postgresql 7.4.3-1 freshly downloaded and installed from scratch earlier today.
>
> I have set CYGWIN=server and started cygserver (from the default account).
>
> I receive the following when I execute "initdb -D /home/default/data --debug". Can someone set me straight? I don't
seethis particular problem in the archives. Thanks. 
>
> ================
>
> Running in debug mode.
>
> initdb: internal variables:
>   PGDATA=/home/default/data
>   datadir=/usr/share/postgresql
>   PGPATH=/usr/bin
>   ENCODING=
>   ENCODINGID=0
>   POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=default
>   POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki
>   POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.description
>   POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
>   PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample
>   PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.sample
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "default".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /home/default/data... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/base... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/global... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /home/default/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /home/default/data/base/1... DEBUG:  invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1081344)
> FATAL:  shmat(id=983040) failed: Invalid argument
> DEBUG:  proc_exit(1)
> DEBUG:  shmem_exit(1)
> DEBUG:  exit(1)
>
>
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