Re: InitDB: Bad system call

Tom Lane schrieb:

>> Hm... /path/to/postgres? Not initdb?
>
> Yes; it's postgres that is failing, not initdb.

Ok.

>> But regardless what i use, it looks
>> like:
>> #0 0x0000000800bb166c in ?? ()
>> #1 0x00000000005b158f in ?? ()
>> ...
>> I believe that is not very helpful, is it?
>
> Nope, it's not. Could you reconfigure with --enable-debug, rebuild, try
> again?

Hm, that was already with --enable-debug. But i believe i just missused
gdb at the first time. Now i get the following result, which seems more
helpful. But i have to reuse an save core-dump, because like before
postgres don't create new ones. Here the result:

%gdb /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres /tmp/postgres.core
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This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...

warning: exec file is newer than core file.
Core was generated by `postgres'.
Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.5...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.5
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7
Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
#0 0x0000000800bb166c in shmctl () from /lib/libc.so.7
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0000000800bb166c in shmctl () from /lib/libc.so.7
#1 0x00000000005b158f in PGSharedMemoryIsInUse (id1=Variable "id1" is
not available.
) at pg_shmem.c:247
#2 0x00000000006a0844 in CreateLockFile (filename=0x7ea036
"postmaster.pid", amPostmaster=0 '\0', isDDLock=1 '\001',
refName=0x800e0b180 "/usr/local/pgsql/data") at miscinit.c:835
#3 0x000000000049baf0 in AuxiliaryProcessMain (argc=3,
argv=0x7fffffffebc8) at bootstrap.c:350
#4 0x000000000056742e in main (argc=4, argv=0x7fffffffebc0) at main.c:180
(gdb) quit

Greetings,
Torsten