Re: unable to initdb under cygwin

I still have not been able to overcome this problem(haven't spent much
time on it either to be truthful) but according to the new readmes it
might be helpful to change a value in cygserver.conf file.

I get that error while trying to start up postgres when I compile from
source code on XP. Using the postgresql binaries from cygwin don't give
me that error.

So if you tried to compile on your own try the pre-compiled packages.

Mike
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 19:16, nasr(dot)laili(at)tin(dot)it wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm having the same kind of trouble I read about a few posts in this
> list, i.e. :... FATAL: shmat(id=3538944) failed: Invalid argument
> with all that follows.
> I cygchecked the system and got only one error (see below), which I
> don't deem responsible for that. I tried cygrunsrv with worst results.
> Started both cygserver and ipc-daemon2 with more or less the same error.
> Here follows some information which might help the more knoledgeable
> among you to understand better what is going on:
>
> Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Mon Jul 12 01:16:38 2004
>
> Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 Build 2222
>
> Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
> C:\cygwin\bin
> C:\cygwin\bin
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
> c:\WINDOWS
> c:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
> C:\cygwin\bin
> C:\cygwin\usr\sbin
> C:\cygwin\bin
> C:\cygwin\sbin
>
> Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
> UID: 500(admin) GID: 544(all)
> 544(all)
>
> Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
> UID: 500(admin) GID: 544(all)
> 544(all)
>
> SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
> WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
>
> CYGWIN = `server'
> HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\admin'
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH = `C:\cygwin\lib\postgresql\:\lib\postgresql'
> MAKE_MODE = `unix'
> PWD = `/home/admin'
> USER = `admin'
> [ ... ]
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
> [ ... ]
> Not Found: cpp (good!)
> Not Found: gcc
> Not Found: gdb
> Not Found: ld
> Not Found: make
> [ ... ]
> 330k 2004/02/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghttpd.dll
> [ ... ]
>
> cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 5
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> # This is the 'ps' result, after starting cygserver:
>
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 353937 1 353937 4294613359 con 500 00:47:34 /usr/bin/BASH
> 349821 353937 349821 4294615323 con 500 00:54:22 /USR/SBIN/CYGSERVER
> 282789 353937 282789 4291042255 con 500 01:06:35 /usr/bin/PS
>
> # and the output of 'initdb -D $PGDATA -W -E LATIN1:
>
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "admin".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1... FATAL: shmat(id=3538944) failed: Invalid argument
>
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/share/postgresql/data"
>
> # And again ...
> [ ... cut ... ]
> creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1... FATAL: shmat(id=1179648) failed: Invalid argument
>
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/share/postgresql/data"
>
> -------------
> Thank you for tour attention,
> Ennio
>
>
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