Samuel Stearns <SStearns@internode.com.au> writes:
> Environment:
> Solaris 10
> Postgres 8.3.12
> Postgres crashed and left 26 postmaster processes active in it's wake. Killed the children and re-started postgres
successfully. Messages from the log:
> Dec 10 11:52:15 udrv postgres[771]: [ID 748848 local0.info] [6-1] host=,user=,db= LOG: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY)
failed:Invalid argument
> Dec 10 11:52:20 udrv postgres[2183]: [ID 748848 local0.error] [1-1] host=,user=,db= FATAL: pre-existing shared
memoryblock (key 5432001, ID 0) is still in use
> Dec 10 11:52:20 udrv postgres[2183]: [ID 748848 local0.error] [1-2] host=,user=,db= HINT: If you're sure there are
noold server processes still running, remove the shared memory block with the
> Dec 10 11:52:20 udrv postgres[2183]: [ID 748848 local0.error] [1-3] command "ipcclean", "ipcrm", or just delete the
file"postmaster.pid".
> With the 'FATAL' and 'HINT' lines repeating.
> Any ideas what occurred here?
Nope. The log entries above are from the restart attempt, and give no
information about the crash. If you have any log entries from before
that, or have a core file that would yield a backtrace, maybe we could
draw some conclusions from that info.
regards, tom lane
