Re: Postmaster failed to start and/or accept connexion

Hi,

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:56, Laurent Ballester wrote:
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> To summarize, I have two different errors types:
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> 1)      postmaster crash at start up because it "could not attach to proper
> memory at fixed address: shmget(key=5432001, addr=014D0000) failed: No such
> file or directory"
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> I update postgresql.conf with max_connections = 5 and now this error does
> not appear too much.
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> 2)      If I launch postmaster again, it start and listen to port 5432, I
> have only a warning "select() failed in statistics collector"  before
> "database system is ready". After a quick reading of source code, it
> doesn't seem too important.
>
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> On a client side, "psql template1" or "createdb mydb" failed to connect to
> postmaster. The error was "server closed the connection unexpectedly..."
> while the server said "could not receive data from client: No such file or
> directory, incomplete startup packet".
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> I continue to investigate.
>

Well, I don't see those errors at all.
Especially the 'shmget' error seems strange. I had this one until I started
postmaster with -i (and the select()... error).
My max_connections is still 500.

Furthermore I called 'createdb -h localhost dbname' (and 'psql -h ...'), that
worked fine.

Greetings,
    Joerg
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