Re: Postgresql under cygwin just stopped working.

if you run this command from a bash promt what does it output? env

The paths cygwin is using should be listed in the output. If it is not E then it will need to be changed. When you updated / reinstalled did you move it from drive C to E? I don't know if the cygwin installer is smart enough to remove the previous path references.

I would guess that your path still has references to the C drive location. usually new additions to the path are added to the end of the list. Once cygwin finds a reference to the path it stops looking for others.

start->settings->control panel->system->advanced->enviornment variables->bottom section of system variables should have a line name path. Remove the following if it is still in there 'C:\cygwin\bin;' (must have admin rights). There should be a 'E:\cygwin\bin;' in there.

cygserver doesn't require you to specify a different install location. It will find it via the environment variables set (path).

Otherwise you can start postmaster passing the location with the -D option. In cygwin mapped network drives are prefixed with a /cygdrive. So drive c is really /cygdrive/c. postmaster -D /cygdrive/e/var/postgresql/data

HTH

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:11:56AM +0200, Martin Husted Hartvig wrote:
>
> I just installed postgres 7.4.3 on a win2000, here the default max
> connections was set to 40, thanks anyway.
>
> Installing on the win2000 gave me a problem and I found one of your
> mail/replies from the 1/7/2004
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.cygwin/2502) I have
> the precise same error and the only thing I can see that might course it
> is that I was forced to install cygwin in e:\cygwin and not in c:\cygwin.
> Is there anywhere I can set the -l parameter to postmaster like with
> pq_ctl or is there a other way around this problem?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:42:38 -0500, mike g <mike(at)thegodshalls(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >Not sure to tell you the truth but cygwin postgres 7.4.1 sets the max
> >connections at 10 by default if I remember correctly.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 02:57, Martin Husted Hartvig wrote:
> >>As I had a backup of the databases I dropped the data folder and made a
> >>initdb, trying with both ipc-daemon and cygserver. When starting
> >>postgresql with ipc-daemon I got the same error, but starting with
> >>cygserver got me a little on the move with semmns and semmni error
> >>indications. When I changed the max_connections from 100 to 45 I was
> >>able
> >>to start postgresql and restore my databases from my backups. Could this
> >>have something to do with the Windows "secure" update from Microsoft?
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Martin
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:38:44 -0500, mike g <mike(at)thegodshalls(dot)com>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>> With 7.3.1 you really should be using cygserver instead of the
> >>> ipc-daemon. Was the cygserver config script run, installed as a
> >>> service, and running?
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps double check the directory permissions in case the X
> >>> installation changed any.
> >>>
> >>> Bad system call to me would indicate postgres is not able to request a
> >>> program or file it needs. It is the dam$ shmat error that no one
> >>seems
> >>> to be able to solve.
> >>>
> >>> Reinstall cygwin as a last resort.
> >>>
> >>> HTH
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 07:20, Martin Husted Hartvig wrote:
> >>>> Hello List,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been using PostgreSQL under CygWin for some time now and have
> >>>> been
> >>>> very glad, but this day it just stopped working. I can't see what the
> >>>> problem is, but 3 things has happend since yesterday where is ran
> >>fine:
> >>>> 1. I installed CygWin/X
> >>>> 2. My my laptop did'nt wake up after hypernate so I had to turn it
> >>off
> >>>> 3. I have just installed the Windows XP service upgrade
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I was using the IPC daemon2 as an NT service, but I have also tryed
> >>>> using
> >>>> the cygserver.
> >>>>
> >>>> When I try to start this happens:
> >>>>
> >>>> $postmaster -D /var/postgres/data/
> >>>> Bad system call
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> and with debug level 5:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ postmaster -d 5 -D /var/postgres/data/
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: postmaster: PostmasterMain: initial environ dump:
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: -----------------------------------------
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: !::=::\
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: !C:=C:\cygwin\bin
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: ANT_HOME=C:\java\apache-ant-1.6.1
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\mh\Application Data
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: CLIENTNAME=Console
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: COMPUTERNAME=MH2
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: CYGSERVER=server
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: CYGWIN=tty
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: HOME=/home/mh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: HOMEDRIVE=C:
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\mh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: HOSTNAME=MH2
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG:
> >>>> INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool
> >>>> /devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.2
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: LOGONSERVER=\\MH2
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: MAKE_MODE=unix
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG:
> >>>> MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/dev
> >>>> el/man::/usr/ssl/man:/usr/X11R6/man
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: OLDPWD=/usr/bin
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: OS=Windows_NT
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG:
> >>>> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WIN
> >>>>
> >>DOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/
> >>>> Program Files/Common Files/Adaptec
> >>>> Shared/System:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/
> >>>> cygdrive/c/Program Files/nasm:/cygdrive/c/Program
> >>>> Files/cdrecord:/cygdrive/c/j2s
> >>>> dk1.4.2/bin:/cygdrive/c/java/apache-ant-1.6.1/bin:/usr/bin
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG:
> >>PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 9 Stepping 5,
> >>>> GenuineInt
> >>>> el
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PROCESSOR_REVISION=0905
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PROMPT=$P$G
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PS1=\[\033]0;\w\007
> >>>> \033[32m\]\u(at)\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> >>>> $
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: PWD=/home/mh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: SESSIONNAME=Console
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: SHLVL=1
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/mh/LOCALS~1/Temp
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: TERM=cygwin
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/mh/LOCALS~1/Temp
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: USER=mh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: USERDOMAIN=MH2
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: USERNAME=mh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\mh
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: _=/usr/bin/postmaster
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: TZ=RST-1RST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: -----------------------------------------
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: searching PATH for executable
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: could not stat "/usr/local/bin/postgres": No such
> >>file or
> >>>> directo
> >>>> ry
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using PATH
> >>>> [4004] DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=10461184)
> >>>> Bad system call
> >>>>
> >>>> I tryed reinstalling the postgresql packages (7.3.1) from cygwin,
> >>but I
> >>>> have not ran a initdb yet. Any idea's?
> >>>> I would be very glad for any reply that could help solving this.
> >>Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Martin
> >>>>
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