Postgres 8.3 crashing unexpectedly - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From umashankar narayanan
Subject Postgres 8.3 crashing unexpectedly
Date
Msg-id 20120308182930.223720@gmx.com
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Version   : 8.3

Below is the log from the server.

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2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST LOG:  server process (PID 5944) exited with exit code 128
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST LOG:  terminating any other active server processes
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of another server process
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST DETAIL:  The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST HINT:  In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command.
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of another server process
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST DETAIL:  The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST HINT:  In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command.
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST WARNING:  terminating connection because of crash of another server process
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST DETAIL:  The postmaster has commanded this server process to roll back the current transaction and exit, because another server process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory.
2012-03-07 11:57:20 EST HINT:  In a moment you should be able to reconnect to the database and repeat your command.

some more repeat of the above WARNING, DETAIL, HINT messages and then the below


2012-03-07 11:57:21 EST LOG:  archiver process (PID 9600) exited with exit code 1
2012-03-07 11:57:21 EST LOG:  all server processes terminated; reinitializing
2012-03-07 11:57:22 EST FATAL:  pre-existing shared memory block is still in use
2012-03-07 11:57:22 EST HINT:  Check if there are any old server processes still running, and terminate them.


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Thanks in advance!

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