Re: InitDB: Bad system call

From: Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: InitDB: Bad system call
Date: 2010-08-12 09:04:42
Message-ID: 4C63B92A.2000402@meisterderspiele.de
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Hello,

>> The first suspicious i can see are a lots of "ERR#32 'Broken pipe'" entries.
>
> This is the result of postgres crashing and thus initdb being unable to
> write any more data to it.
>
> I think you should try harder to generate the core file. Maybe you have
> too low an "ulimit -c" setting?

There is no ulimit at FreeBSD.

Greetings,
Torsten

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