Thread: build postgresql-7.4.2 fails: FATAL: semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Inv,alid argument
build postgresql-7.4.2 fails: FATAL: semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Inv,alid argument
From
contact
Date:
2004 June 1st Upon build ... ./configure --enable-multibyte --with-perl --with-CXX --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --docdir=/usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.4.2 ... make ... make install ... Administrator@Dementor /cygdrive/d/Applications/postgresql-7.4.2 $ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Administrator". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok selecting default max_connections... 10 selecting default shared_buffers... 50 creating configuration files... ok creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Inv alid argument initdb: failed initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" ... I'm frustrated! Besides 7.4.1 runs!!! I just don't want to start with bugs as a newcomer. uk :'( ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Re: build postgresql-7.4.2 fails: FATAL: semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Inv,alid argument
From
Tom Lane
Date:
contact <contact@uuukkk.net> writes:
> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL:
> semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Invalid argument
You're not going to get a lot of help on this when you didn't mention
your platform, but it looks like your kernel doesn't support SysV IPC.
See the PG admin guide for some hints.
> Besides 7.4.1 runs!!!
Did you have 7.4.1 running at the same time? Maybe you're hitting the
kernel limit on how many SysV semaphores you can have at once. That's
not quite the error message I would have expected in that case, but
it's a possibility.
regards, tom lane