Re: Postgresql under cygwin just stopped working. - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

Not sure to tell you the truth but cygwin postgres 7.4.1 sets the max
connections at 10 by default if I remember correctly.


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 02:57, Martin Husted Hartvig wrote:
> As I had a backup of the databases I dropped the data folder and made a
> initdb, trying with both ipc-daemon and cygserver. When starting
> postgresql with ipc-daemon I got the same error, but starting with
> cygserver got me a little on the move with semmns and semmni error
> indications. When I changed the max_connections from 100 to 45 I was able
> to start postgresql and restore my databases from my backups. Could this
> have something to do with the Windows "secure" update from Microsoft?
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:38:44 -0500, mike g <mike@thegodshalls.com> wrote:
>
> > With 7.3.1 you really should be using cygserver instead of the
> > ipc-daemon.  Was the cygserver config script run, installed as a
> > service, and running?
> >
> > Perhaps double check the directory permissions in case the X
> > installation changed any.
> >
> > Bad system call to me would indicate postgres is not able to request a
> > program or file it needs.  It is the dam$ shmat error that no one seems
> > to be able to solve.
> >
> > Reinstall cygwin as a last resort.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 07:20, Martin Husted Hartvig wrote:
> >> Hello List,
> >>
> >> I have been using PostgreSQL under CygWin for some time now and have
> >> been
> >> very glad, but this day it just stopped working. I can't see what the
> >> problem is, but 3 things has happend since yesterday where is ran fine:
> >>   1. I installed CygWin/X
> >>   2. My my laptop did'nt wake up after hypernate so I had to turn it off
> >>   3. I have just installed the Windows XP service upgrade
> >>
> >>
> >> I was using the IPC daemon2 as an NT service, but I have also tryed
> >> using
> >> the cygserver.
> >>
> >> When I try to start this happens:
> >>
> >> $postmaster -D /var/postgres/data/
> >> Bad system call
> >>
> >>
> >> and with debug level 5:
> >>
> >> $ postmaster -d 5 -D /var/postgres/data/
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  postmaster: PostmasterMain: initial environ dump:
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  -----------------------------------------
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   !::=::\
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   !C:=C:\cygwin\bin
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   ANT_HOME=C:\java\apache-ant-1.6.1
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\mh\Application Data
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   CLIENTNAME=Console
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   COMPUTERNAME=MH2
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   CYGSERVER=server
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   CYGWIN=tty
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   HOME=/home/mh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   HOMEDRIVE=C:
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\mh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   HOSTNAME=MH2
> >> [4004] DEBUG:
> >> INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool
> >> /devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.2
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   LOGONSERVER=\\MH2
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   MAKE_MODE=unix
> >> [4004] DEBUG:
> >> MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/dev
> >> el/man::/usr/ssl/man:/usr/X11R6/man
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   OLDPWD=/usr/bin
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   OS=Windows_NT
> >> [4004] DEBUG:
> >> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WIN
> >> DOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/
> >> Program Files/Common Files/Adaptec
> >> Shared/System:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1:/
> >> cygdrive/c/Program Files/nasm:/cygdrive/c/Program
> >> Files/cdrecord:/cygdrive/c/j2s
> >> dk1.4.2/bin:/cygdrive/c/java/apache-ant-1.6.1/bin:/usr/bin
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 9 Stepping 5,
> >> GenuineInt
> >> el
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PROCESSOR_REVISION=0905
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PROGRAMFILES=C:\Program Files
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PROMPT=$P$G
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PS1=\[\033]0;\w\007
> >>          \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> >>          $
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   PWD=/home/mh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   SESSIONNAME=Console
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   SHLVL=1
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   TEMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/mh/LOCALS~1/Temp
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   TERM=cygwin
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   TMP=/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/mh/LOCALS~1/Temp
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   USER=mh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   USERDOMAIN=MH2
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   USERNAME=mh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\mh
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   WINDIR=C:\WINDOWS
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   _=/usr/bin/postmaster
> >> [4004] DEBUG:   TZ=RST-1RST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  -----------------------------------------
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  searching PATH for executable
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  could not stat "/usr/local/bin/postgres": No such file or
> >> directo
> >> ry
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  found "/usr/bin/postgres" using PATH
> >> [4004] DEBUG:  invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=10461184)
> >> Bad system call
> >>
> >> I tryed reinstalling the postgresql packages (7.3.1) from cygwin, but I
> >> have not ran a initdb yet. Any idea's?
> >> I would be very glad for any reply that could help solving this. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
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