Re: 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Justin Clift
Subject Re: 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?
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Msg-id 3AD92DC6.A615F697@postgresql.org
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In response to 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?  (Adam Haberlach <adam@newsnipple.com>)
Responses Re: 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?
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Hi Adam,

As other others have pointed out to you, this is because you haven't
configured the shared memory and semaphores settings yet.

There is also an installation guide for PostgreSQL 7.1 on Solaris that
has settings for his, as well as explaining how to get readline and
OpenSSL working.

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/installguides.html#solaris

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Adam Haberlach wrote:
>
> I've been holding off installing 7.1 on my Solaris machine, since
> it is at home and I didn't want to download it more then once, but
> now that it is released, I've tried, and...
>
> I built straight out of the box, using configure, the initdb seemed
> to work, and now I get:
>
> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1245184, 03600) failed: Invalid argument
>
> This error can be caused by one of three things:
>
> 1. The maximum size for shared memory segments on your system was
>    exceeded.  You need to raise the SHMMAX parameter in your kernel
>    to be at least 1245184 bytes.
>
> 2. The requested shared memory segment was too small for your system.
>    You need to lower the SHMMIN parameter in your kernel.
>
> 3. The requested shared memory segment already exists but is of the
>    wrong size.  This is most likely the case if an old version of
>    PostgreSQL crashed and didn't clean up.  The `ipcclean' utility
>    can be used to remedy this.
>
> ---
>
> This is on the mostly-stock Solaris that came on my Netra X1 server.
>
> # uname -a
> SunOS snatch 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
>
> ...anyone have any ideas?
>
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