Re: Restart after poweroutage

On Monday 25 September 2006 02:48 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adrian Klaver <aklaver@comcast.net> writes:
> > On Sunday 24 September 2006 09:17 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Jon Lapham <lapham@jandr.org> writes:
> >>> FATAL:  pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 65536) is
> >>> still in use
> >>
> >> This is extremely odd, because a shared memory block could not possibly
> >> have survived a reboot.
> >
> > In the its a small world department I experienced the same problem
> > shortly after reading this message.
>
> I spent quite some time today trying to duplicate this failure (by
> pulling the plug on an up-to-date Fedora Core 5 machine).  No luck.
> I suppose there is some contributing factor on your machines that
> we haven't identified yet ...
>
>             regards, tom lane

Is there something I could do to help capture useful information should I see
a repeat of this behavior?
--
Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net