Just an explanation in the FAQ that the ipc-daemon is not running won't suffice. Because in my case I had ipc-daemon (version 1.11) running and it still hung (Jason's patch reported the IpcMemoryCreate error). Only when I downgraded to version 1.09 (office) and upgraded to 1.13 (home) did initdb succeed. So I'd suggest also covering this scenario.
Thanks,
Richard
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
At least that is an FAQ item.
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Jason Tishler wrote:
> Tom,
> Peter,
>
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:43:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > If you can detect that cygipc is not running, then ENOSYS seems the
> > > best choice for reporting that. (ENOSPC would be misleading too.)
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback. I will take this to the Cygwin list and see
> > what happens.
>
> I happy to report that the above has been accomplished:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-11/msg00025.html
>
> Hopefully, the Cygwin initdb and postmaster hang posts will be a thing
> of the past. Unfortunately, they probab ly will be replaced by questions
> like:
>
> Why does initdb fail with "IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(...) failed:
> Function not implemented?"
>
> Jason
>
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