What version of Postgresql are you using?
What version of Windows?
Mike
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 20:18, Daniel Secomb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some weird reason, the initialization attempt has spat the dummy and
> this is what it did:
>
>
>
> $ export CYGWIN=server
> $ /usr/sbin/cygserver &
> [1] 686417
> $ cygserver: Initialization complete. Waiting for requests.
> initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -W -E LATIN1
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Daniel
> Secomb
> ".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL:
> shmat<id=
> 1179648> failed: Invalid argument
>
> initdb: failed
> $
>
>
>
> Any reason why it has done this?
>
> Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!
>
> Many, many thanks!!
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Daniel Secomb
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