"IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed" on 2.0.38 (was Re: Bug?) - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> > IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432010, size=144, permission=700
> >     My kernel has been compiled with "System V IPC" selected.
> >     PostgreSQL 6.5.3 has been compiled and ran on this system.
>
> Hmm, maybe there are old shmem segments still present from the 6.5.3
> postmaster?  You might need to 'ipcrm' the old ones.  See our ipcclean
> script for help.
>

    Thanks for the advice Tom.  The following happened:

-> ./ipcclean
ipcclean: nothing removed

-> postmaster -D /home/postgres/data/
IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432010, size=144, permission=700
This type of error is usually caused by an improper
shared memory or System V IPC semaphore configuration.
[SNIP: Same as previous message]

    Anything else that could solve this?

== Sean.