Re: initdb dies during IpcSemaphoreCreate under BSD jail

Hi Joel,
Did you ever get any resolution to this problem? I am facing it now and need
some
direction.
Thanks
--- Joe ---

Joel Burton wrote:

> I'm working on a site hosted in a BSD Jail; they have MySQL installed but,
> of course, I'd rather use PostgreSQL.
>
> It installs fine but can't initdb; get the following:
>
> Fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1...
> IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=1, num=17, 03600) failed:
> Function not implemented
>
> Earlier message traffic suggests that SYSV IPC has not been fixed to run
> under BSD Jails.
>
> The last time this was raised was ~1 year ago. Has there been any changes
> here that anyone knows of? Any hope of getting PG running in our jail? (Or,
> alternatively, can PG run on the real machine's processes so that the
> different jails can access it?)
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joel BURTON | joel(at)joelburton(dot)com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton
> Knowledge Management & Technology Consultant
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