From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 18 02:07:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE331065692 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:07:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (113901-app1.sourcehosting.net [72.32.213.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA2E8FC08 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 68-189-245-235.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([68.189.245.235] helo=cube.entropy.prv) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NLSF8-00031y-9i; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:07:03 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fireball.entropy.prv [192.168.1.12]) by cube.entropy.prv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30AF838E5C33; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B2AE3C0.2040501@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:56 -0500 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Reggie Euser References: <006001ca7f7d$0279b290$8bcd1ea8@S0030153310> In-Reply-To: <006001ca7f7d$0279b290$8bcd1ea8@S0030153310> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=1C940290 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.2 (/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/postgres: Undefined symbol "shmctl" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:07:05 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reggie Euser wrote: > Have been running FreeBSD 7.1 for months with PostgreSQL 8.3. All fine. > > Today, made a change to hosts.allow to add an IP address for FTP access. > Rebooted and attempted to restart PostgreSQL. Postgres wouldn't start > and left this error in the log file: > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/postgres: Undefined symbol "shmctl" > > Have Googled & IRC'd with no luck. Any suggestions or ideas about how to > fix would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks! Hi Reggie, Have you upgraded your system with freebsd-update or csup recently? Did you install PostgreSQL from a binary package or build it in the ports tree? This is a thread from someone with the same problem, although a different application: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=6661 It sounds like a fresh rebuild from the ports tree might fix the problem, but YMMV. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/ - Follow me, follow you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLKuPA0sRouByUApARAuRKAJ9QiaXdVXBCRJAz7b6IMfxnryAPQACcC+kP TNjkV1uqamolmrY0+2W8brc= =Ewsl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----