Re: shmctl EIDRM preventing startup

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:39:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Maybe what is happening is that an entirely unrelated process created a
> > segment with that ID, attached to it, and then it was deleted. I don't
> > know how to check however.
>
> AFAIK, EIDRM should imply that the segment has been IPC_RMID'd but still
> exists because there are still processes attached to it. So the thing
> to look for is processes still attached. Not 100% sure how to do that,
> but I'm sure the info is exposed under /proc somehow...

If it's installed, this:

lsof |grep SYSV

Will list all processes attached to a SHM segemtn on the system. I
think ipcs can do the same. You can grep /proc/*/maps for the same
info.

Have a nice day,
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