From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 2 04:56:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA10244 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 04:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [209.47.148.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA10238 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 04:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with SMTP id HAA28953; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 07:56:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 07:56:33 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Chan Fook Sheng cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , pgsql-admin@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgresql questions In-Reply-To: <3573CF31.8AE747D6@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Chan Fook Sheng wrote: > 4) when I run "psql template1 " or "createdb test" I get the following: > > connection to database 'template1' failed. > PQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed the channel > before responding. This probably means the backend terminated abnormally > before or while processing the request. > freebsd /kernel : cmd postgres pid 782 tried to use non-present SYSVSEM > freebsd /kernel : cmd postgres pid 782 tried to use non-present SYSVSEM > freebsd /kernel : cmd postgres pid 755 tried to use non-present SYSVSEM > freebsd /kernel : cmd postgres pid 755 tried to use non-present SYSVSEM > > createdb: database creation failed on test. > [1] 755 Bad system call (core dumped) postmaster -D/usr/local/pgsql/data > > And the postgresql stops. Can anyone help me on this please? The error message is pretty self-explanatory, no? You don't have SYSVSEM compiled into your kernel... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message