Re: PROBLEM: Postgres fails to start due to kernel issue?

From: hpanvin@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 22:13:25 EST


Yes, it almost certainly is. Fixed in rc1.

Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Dave Haywood <tla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ÂI noticed after upgrading to 3.2.0-08812-gc2bc3a3 that Postgres-9.1
>server
>> fails to start with error:
>>
>> FATAL: Âcould not create shared memory segment: Function not
>implemented
>> DETAIL: ÂFailed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=30523392,
>03600).
>>
>> ÂAfter some googling, I thought it was a SYSV shared memory sizing
>issue but
>> manually changing kernel.shmmax and kernel.shmall had no effect.
>>
>> ÂThe problem has been introduced between 3.2.0-08694-g53999bf and
>> 3.2.0-08812-gc2bc3a3.
>>
>> ÂLet me know if you need any more information. ÂBisecting is *very*
>slow on
>> this machine!
>
>If you run strace on it, does it fail with ENOSYS? This might be
>related to an issue Peter just fixed.
>
>josh

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