first crash

I had my first production crash today.

PostgreSQL v7.3
NetBSD/Alpha 1.6

Postmaster was started a few months ago. Things went fine for months.
Then I started noticing psql.core dumps when exiting from psql. On a fresh
startup of postmaster, psql doesn't core dump on exit.

Today postmaster crashed without a core dump. When I tried to start
postmaster up again it gave me some strange error about using ipcrm to
remove stale shared memory block.

The main postmaster disappeared from 'ps' but a 4 others remain...

Once I removed those stale connections, and started up postmaster again,
things are back to normal and psql didn't core dump upon exit (\q).

Is there anything I can do to help track down this issue?

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$ ps axj | grep postmaster
pgsql 22589 1 16910 a36100 0 S ?? 0:09.87 postmaster: pgsql
testdb [local] idle
pgsql 22593 1 16910 a36100 0 S ?? 0:09.70 postmaster: pgsql
testdb [local] idle
pgsql 22596 1 16910 a36100 0 S ?? 0:09.77 postmaster: pgsql
testdb [local] idle
pgsql 22604 1 16910 a36100 0 S ?? 0:10.43 postmaster: pgsql
testdb [local] idle
pgsql 22607 1 16910 a36100 0 S ?? 0:10.14 postmaster: pgsql
testdb [local] idle
pgsql 3266 3028 3265 916d80 2 R+ p3 0:00.00 grep postmaster
(sh)
$ pg_ctl start -D /var/pgsql/data-7.3
pg_ctl: Another postmaster may be running. Trying to start postmaster
anyway.
Found a pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, id 327680) still in
use.
If you're sure there are no old backends still running,
remove the shared memory block with ipcrm(1), or just
delete "/var/pgsql/data-7.3/postmaster.pid".
pg_ctl: cannot start postmaster
Examine the log output.
$ kill -HUP 22589 22593 22596 22604 22607
$ ps axj | grep postmaster
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