On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:
> At 12:55 25.01.2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de> writes:
> > > Actually, it's always the same address where the program
> > > stops; running the above steps severaly times seems to confirm this
> > > (which might indicate that the address is of use for you?!).
> >
> >The address is unhelpful, but a backtrace (try typing "bt") might be
> >very interesting indeed.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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> >TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>
> Just my 2ct - but could it be you did not start ipc-daemon? It's not in the
> standard
> cygwin distrib (one should bang the heads of these guys - to distribute a
> program
> and not even mentioning (e.g in the postinstall scripts) that you need to
> get cygipc
> from somewhere else!).
>
> Just search for cygipc on the net - I use 1.11 (I think), and it works
> fine. Without
> ipc-daemon running in the bg, you get exactly the reported behaviour!
You're absolutely right. That was the problem! (This is explained
*somewhere* . . . I seem to recall that I had the problem once, solved
it that way, and forgot about it.)
Regards, Frank