Re: [HACKERS] Can't start postmaster

Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > When I try to start the postmaster from the current sources, I get the
> > following error.
> >
> > IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget failed (No space left on device) key=5432015, num=16, permission=600
> >
> > My command is as follows.
> >
> > /usr/local/postgres/bin/postmaster -S -D /usr/local/postgres/data
> >
> > The same command works with PostgreSQL 6.5.0 build from sources in
> > Feb. I did a full distclean, reconfigure, build and initdb. There
> > is plenty of space on the system so I assume that the above error is
> > bogus but I can't imagine what has changed to make this fail. Any ideas?
> >
>
> Use pgsql/bin/ipcclean. You have old shared memory around.

Hmm. That didn't do it. I did reboot and it came up. I did have to do
an initdb before using it though.

Thanks.

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