Re: InitDB: Bad system call

From: Glen Barber <glen(dot)j(dot)barber(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: InitDB: Bad system call
Date: 2010-08-15 06:22:48
Message-ID: 4C6787B8.1090908@gmail.com
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On 8/15/10 1:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Well, this seems to be clear proof for what everyone suspected all
> along: your kernel is rejecting SysV-shared-memory calls. I'm too tired
> to go check that that shmctl() is the first such syscall during the boot
> sequence, but it looks about right.
>
> So we're now back to the question of *why* it's rejecting those calls,
> when you apparently have the proper support configured. I'm afraid
> you now need to seek the assistance of some FreeBSD kernel experts;
> it's beyond the ken of a simple database hacker ...
>

7.0-STABLE is ... old. I would recommend upgrading to something more
recent before moving forward with this "bug", as I expect the FreeBSD
community to recommend such anyway.

Regards,

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Glen Barber
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