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Date:      Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:14:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chan Fook Sheng <chen68@hotmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject:   Re: postgresql questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603001345.22038o-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3573CF31.8AE747D6@hotmail.com>

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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Chan Fook Sheng wrote:

> Then I try
> 3)postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> and it runs, I wonder why it don't start automatically when I start the
> server, my /usr/local/pgsql/.profile file had defined the PGDATA as
> /usr/local/pgsql/data and I have the file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/pgsql.sh .

Make sure it's executable.

> 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?

You need to build a new kernel with lines

options SYSVSHM
options SYSVSEM
options SYSVMSG

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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