Adrian Klaver <aklaver@comcast.net> writes:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 09:17 am, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Jon Lapham <lapham@jandr.org> writes:
>>> FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 65536) is
>>> still in use
>>
>> This is extremely odd, because a shared memory block could not possibly
>> have survived a reboot.
> In the its a small world department I experienced the same problem shortly
> after reading this message.
I spent quite some time today trying to duplicate this failure (by
pulling the plug on an up-to-date Fedora Core 5 machine). No luck.
I suppose there is some contributing factor on your machines that
we haven't identified yet ...
regards, tom lane