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Initdb fails - semctl invalid argument

From
"Rattan, Neeta S"
Date:

Did anyone find a solution to the problem Eric posted below-
Semctl(17, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Invalid argument.
The solution posted of rebooting the machine did not work for me, and I continue to see this problem everytime I try to run initdb (on WinXP, cygwin, 7.4.2) with the first argument of semctl increasing on each subsequent attempt.

Please advise!
-Neeta Rattan

We are getting this same exact error-- always this

semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Invalid argument

on the creating template1 step of initdb.

On my Windows XP machine I had 7.4.1 working fine last month (service configuration).

If I install 7.4.2 I get this error. If I reinstall 7.4.1 (rerun make install) initdb works. If I reinstall 7.4.2 it fails again with that semctl error. I tried rebuilding 7.41 from scratch and installing, thinking maybe it was a configuration difference when I built it last month, but no, 7.4.1 initdb still works.

My coworker, on the other hand (not running it as a service), gets this same semctl error even with 7.4.1.

This is preventing us from switching from mySQL to Postgres. Can anyone please offer a clue how to get around this?

Eric Schwarzenbach

Re: Initdb fails - semctl invalid argument

From
Mike G
Date:
7.4.2 on cygwin is not supported yet and won't be until cygwin version 1.5.10 is released some time this year from what
Iunderstand.  There was an earlier post from Jason Tishler I believe that outlined why 7.4.2 won't work with cygwin
1.5.9

If 7.4.1 doesn't have the same problem with shutting down unexpectedly as 7.4.1-3 does go with that one if you can't
waitfor 1.5.10 to be released. 


On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:17:11AM -0600, Rattan, Neeta S wrote:
> Did anyone find a solution to the problem Eric posted below-
> Semctl(17, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Invalid argument.
> The solution posted of rebooting the machine did not work for me, and I
> continue to see this problem everytime I try to run initdb (on WinXP,
> cygwin, 7.4.2) with the first argument of semctl increasing on each
> subsequent attempt.
> Please advise!
> -Neeta Rattan
>
> We are getting this same exact error-- always this
>
> semctl(35, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Invalid argument
>
> on the creating template1 step of initdb.
>
> On my Windows XP machine I had 7.4.1 working fine last month (service
> configuration).
>
> If I install 7.4.2 I get this error. If I reinstall 7.4.1 (rerun make
> install) initdb works. If I reinstall 7.4.2 it fails again with that semctl
> error. I tried rebuilding 7.41 from scratch and installing, thinking maybe
> it was a configuration difference when I built it last month, but no, 7.4.1
> initdb still works.
>
> My coworker, on the other hand (not running it as a service), gets this same
> semctl error even with 7.4.1.
>
> This is preventing us from switching from mySQL to Postgres. Can anyone
> please offer a clue how to get around this?
>
> Eric Schwarzenbach
>
>