On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info> writes:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Would you try strace'ing postmaster start to see what gets passed to the
> >> socket() and bind() calls just before this message comes out?
>
> > Here is the relative output from truss.
>
> > socket(2, 2, 0) = 7
> > bind(7, 0x00000001100E3BF0, 16) Err#13 EACCES
>
> Well, that's pretty odd --- I'd have expected to see something involving
> 127.0.0.1 (ie, 7F000001 in one byte order or another). Does your
> /etc/hosts file map "localhost" to something other than 127.0.0.1?
Nope, it maps localhost to 127.0.0.1
> Also, do regular connections to this postmaster work across TCP/IP?
> If getaddrinfo() is broken I'd expect there to be problems binding
> to the postmaster's listen socket too ...
Yes, TCP/IP connections work fine.
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Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.
