Thread: IPC Problem

Hi all,

yesterday I tried to install Postgres 7.0.3 on Linux.
Everything went fine until I started the postmaster, I got
the following error:

    IPCMemoryCreate : shmget (identifies removed) Key=5432010
size = 24588, permission = 700
     ...
I tried to solve this with rebuilding the Kernel, but that
did not help at all

Can you give me a hint please.

Thank you in advance,
Michael


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Michael Husmann <Michael.Husmann@teleatlas.com> writes:
>     IPCMemoryCreate : shmget (identifies removed) Key=5432010
> size = 24588, permission = 700
>      ...

You mean "identifier removed"?  It sounds like your old postmaster
isn't fully shut down yet (maybe a backend process or two still
hanging around?).  Look for leftover processes, and also see ipcs
and ipcrm to clean up the old shmem segment by hand (or try our
ipcclean script).

            regards, tom lane