postmaster startup segfault: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610028AA

Hi all.

I'm running Cygwin 1.5.18-1, PostgreSQL 7.4.5, freshly reinstalled on Windows XP. cygserver is up with semaphore and
sharedmemory limits increased to the max. CYGWIN=server is in the environment, initdb works, but postmaster segfaults
withina second with no messages to the console. At "-d 5", the last line is DEBUG: invoking
IpcMemoryCreate(size=9469952),right after the environment spew. 

A postmaster.pid file gets created in the datadir, socket+lock files in /tmp.



IpcMemoryCreate seems to have worked:

$ ipcs -au
Message Queues:
T     ID               KEY        MODE       OWNER    GROUP  CREATOR   CGROUP CBYTES   QNUM QBYTES  LSPID  LRPID
STIME   RTIME    CTIME 

Message Queue Usage:
        msg_ids:       0        (no. of allocated queues)
        msg_num:       0        (no. of messages in system)
        msg_tot:       0        (size in bytes of messages in system)

Shared Memory:
T     ID               KEY        MODE       OWNER    GROUP  CREATOR   CGROUP NATTCH    SEGSZ   CPID   LPID    ATIME
DTIME   CTIME 
m  65536              5432001 --rw-------  ebrunar     None  ebrunar     None      0  9469952   3732   3732 23:39:41
23:39:4323:39:41 

Shared Memory Usage:
        shm_ids:        1       (no. of allocated segments)
        shm_tot:  9469952       (size in bytes of allocated segments)
        shm_atts:       0       (no. of attached segments in system)

Semaphores:
T     ID               KEY        MODE       OWNER    GROUP  CREATOR   CGROUP NSEMS    OTIME    CTIME
s  65536              5432001 --rw-------  ebrunar     None  ebrunar     None     17 23:39:41 23:39:41
s  65537              5432002 --rw-------  ebrunar     None  ebrunar     None     17 23:39:41 23:39:41
s  65538              5432003 --rw-------  ebrunar     None  ebrunar     None     17 23:39:41 23:39:41

Semaphore Usage:
        sem_ids:       3        (no. of allocated semaphore sets)
        sem_num:      51        (no. of allocated semaphores)



Here's the stackdump:

$ cat postgres.exe.stackdump
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610028AA
eax=00000000 ebx=61258F88 ecx=0000004E edx=000001A8 esi=000001A8 edi=61259000
ebp=0022E948 esp=0022E910 program=C:\cygwin\bin\postgres.exe, pid 3732, thread main
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0022E948  610028AA  (00000000, 61258D88, 0022E978, 6101F5E8)
0022E978  6101171C  (61156488, 61258D88, 0022E9C8, 61010F4E)
0022E9A8  61011CED  (61154A78, 61156448, 611D84D0, 61154A78)
0022E9E8  61011E38  (61154A78, 00000000, 000007B6, 00002000)
0022EA28  6108E3FD  (00000000, 00002000, 0022EA68, 1001672C)
0022EA58  610844FF  (0022EA78, 0022EA7C, 0022EA88, 0053F2C3)
0022EA88  0055945A  (00001538, 00000000, 00001538, 10016648)
0022EEE8  0053D258  (00000005, 100101C0, 0022EF18, 61087959)
0022EF18  00506FFD  (00000005, 61157690, 10010090, 7C919AF0)
0022EFD8  61004DD2  (0022EFF0, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
0022FF88  6100594F  (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
End of stack trace



I don't have anything else of significance running on this machine. Everything was working beautifully until three days
ago(last known access to the postgres server and the one database I really care about). Yesterday, I installed the
OpenSSHutilities via Cygwin setup. I'm not at all sure of a causal relationship, but eventually I reinstalled Cygwin,
creatednew databases, to no avail. 

Anybody ever have an experience like this?

Thanks,
Erik

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