From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 2 20:24:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3651D16A422 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C9D43D70 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 328D5823C78; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33146-01; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D6A823C77; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 106DC4A4F6; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB603464E; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:11 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:24:10 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20060402195657.GA57843@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20060402172021.B947@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060402144704.S947@ganymede.hub.org> <20060402191519.GA56599@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060402162612.N947@ganymede.hub.org> <20060402193808.GA57127@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060402165234.Y947@ganymede.hub.org> <20060402195657.GA57843@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 6] semctl broken compared to 4-STABLE ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:24:16 -0000 On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Right, but why are they doing it *consistently* in FreeBSD 6.x, when they >> never did it in FreeBSD 4.x? I have postmaster processes running on the >> FreeBSD box as far back as November 27th, 2005 ... and have *never* >> experienced this problem ... so it isn't PostgreSQL that has changed, >> something in FreeBSD has changed :( > > You'll need to do some debugging to find out which of the two causes > of EINVAL are true here (or some undocumented cause). 'k, right now, the checks in PostgreSQL are just seeing if the result of semctl < 0 ... i see from the man page what 'two values' of EINVAL you are referring to ... but, if they both return the same ERRNO, how do I determine which of the two is the cause of the problem? :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664