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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:10:59 -0400
From: Jason House <jhouse AT mitre DOT org>
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To: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, pgsql-cygwin AT postgresql DOT org
Subject: Re: postgres help
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Thanks for the help everyone (Jason, Igor and Jonathan)

#2 did solve the problem.  I have also upgraded the cygwin version to 
1.5 which was probably another problem.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to use postgres ;)

Some recommended doc improvements (to prevent questions from people like 
me... even though the doc already contains all the needed information)
- for the "net start postmaster" command for NT/XP, it might be nice 
mention that "net start" and the services applet can give false 
positives to the postmaster process starting successfully.  in the 
applet, a manual refresh will reveal that it hasn't really been 
"started".  From the command line "net stop postmaster" will give an 
error if it truly didn't start up...
- Mention the uname command in comment 14 as a way to check the cygwin 
version.  I know that I *should* have remembered this...
- cross referencing bugs to individual commands would also be nice

Jason Tishler wrote:
> 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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