> When I try to start the postmaster from the current sources, I get the
> following error.
>
> IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget failed (No space left on device) key=5432015, num=16, permission=600
>
> My command is as follows.
>
> /usr/local/postgres/bin/postmaster -S -D /usr/local/postgres/data
>
> The same command works with PostgreSQL 6.5.0 build from sources in
> Feb. I did a full distclean, reconfigure, build and initdb. There
> is plenty of space on the system so I assume that the above error is
> bogus but I can't imagine what has changed to make this fail. Any ideas?
>
Use pgsql/bin/ipcclean. You have old shared memory around.
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