Have you tried to delete IPC-related files located within /tmp before you started the "Cygwin IPC Daemon" ?
Regards,
Joachim
>Title: RE: [CYGWIN] postmaster crashes on start-up
>It could be some kind of permissions problem.
>Are you running the ipc-daemon as the same user as postgresql?
>Did you install Just for me as a different user?
>Maybe try cleaning out all the ipc file for /tmp.
>hth,
>- Stuart
>P.S. Sorry for the format mangling the disclaimer adder forces on me :(
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shmuel A. Kahn [mailto:Shmuel@Kam-motion.com <mailto:Shmuel@Kam-motion.com> ]
>> Sent: 19 June 2003 10:26
>> To: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
>> Subject: [CYGWIN] postmaster crashes on start-up
>>
>>
>> I just successfully installed postgres-ql on my Win-2K PC,
>> with the following set-up:
>>
>> Windows-2000
>> cygwin - 1.3.22-1
>> postgresql - 7.3.3-1
>> cygipc - 1.14-1
>>
>> cygipc runs as an automatic service. But every time I attempt
>> to start the postmaster
>> (as a service or) manually, it fails to run :-(
>>
>> postmaster -i -D /usr/share/postgresql/data &
>>
>> I get the following message:
>> IpcSemaphoreInitialize: semctl(id=2, 0, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid
>> argument
>> LOG: startup process (pid 2472) exited with exit code 1
>> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
>>
>> What am I doing wrong :-( ??
>> (Yes this is a repeat email, no one answered the first)
>>
>> Shmuel Kahn
>>
>>
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