Adam Haberlach <adam@newsnipple.com> writes:
> 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:
[...]
> 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?
What part of the error message was unclear? Have you checked your
kernel shared memory settings?
-Doug
