| From: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Christoph Haller" <ch(at)rodos(dot)fzk(dot)de>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: IpcSemaphoreKill: ...) failed: Invalid argument |
| Date: | 2003-02-18 01:34:02 |
| Message-ID: | 043501c2d6ed$d2266500$6500a8c0@fhp.internal |
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> This is a fairly spectacular failure :-(. As far as I can see from the
> semctl and shmctl man pages, the only plausible reason for EINVAL is
> that something had deleted the semaphores and shared memory out from
> under Postgres. I do not believe that Postgres itself could have done
> that --- it had to be some external agency. Unless the kernel is
> broken, whatever requested those deletions had to be running as root or
> as postgres in order to have the necessary permissions. You sure you
> didn't have some loose-cannon script running around issuing ipcrm
> commands?
Or ipcclean?
Chris
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