Thread: problems installing postgre

Dear Sirs,

I'm installing Verity K2 Dashboard (with postgre integrated) and get error messages during the postgre installation part:
IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432010, size=144,
permiss
ion=700
This type of error is usually caused by an improper
shared memory or System V IPC semaphore configuration.
For more information, see the FAQ and platform-specific
FAQ's in the source directory pgsql/doc or on our
web site at http://www.postgresql.org.
IpcMemoryIdGet: shmget failed (No such file or directory) key=5432010,
size=144,
 permission=0
IpcMemoryAttach: shmat failed (Invalid argument) id=-2
FATAL 1:  AttachSLockMemory: could not attach segment

Our shared memory segment size is 4 MB,
our OS Sun/Solaris 5.7

Please can you give me some advice?

Best regards,
Johannes Heinz

Johannes Heinz <j.heinz@sz-sb.de> writes:
> I'm installing Verity K2 Dashboard (with postgre integrated) and get
> error messages during the postgre installation part:
> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432010, size=144,
> permission=700

It looks to me like you must not have SysV shared memory support enabled
at all.  I have no idea where to turn that on in Solaris ... there is
some info in the PG Admin Guide, which may or may not help:
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/kernel-resources.html#SYSVIPC

Also, I'd suggest pestering Verity to adopt a more modern release of
Postgres.  You appear to be running 7.0 or something even older.

            regards, tom lane