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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:54:43 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: Jason House <jhouse AT mitre DOT org>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, pgsql-cygwin AT postgresql DOT org
Subject: Re: postgres help
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Jason,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:30:51AM -0400, Jason House wrote:
> JHOUSE AT MM112379-2K ~
> $ cat /var/log/postmaster.log
> IpcSemaphoreInitialize: semctl(id=2, 0, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument
> LOG:  startup process (pid 2548) exited with exit code 1
> LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

The above indicates that postmaster did not start up.  I have seen
reports of the above error message before.  Unfortunately, I have not
received definitive confirmation of a solution.

Does the following from the README help?

    2. It is recommended to delete all cygipc temporary files
    (/tmp/cygipc* and /tmp/MultiFile*) before starting postmaster under
    a different user account.  Otherwise, postmaster will fail to start
    due to IPC errors.  Note cygipc 2.x automatically removes these
    files during normal shutdown so this issue has been essentially
    obviated.

What PostgreSQL and cygipc versions are you running?

Jason

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