Re: InitDB: Bad system call

Hi Glen,

>>>> How annoying :-(.  I think what you need to do is use truss or strace
>>>> or local equivalent with the follow-forks flag, so that you can see what
>>>> the stand-alone backend process does, not just initdb itself.
>>> Ok, next round. I just have truss as an option, because strace didn't
>>> work at my AMD64. Hope its helpfull:
>>> $ truss -f -o /tmp/pgtuss-f.txt /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D
>>> /usr/local/pgsql/data
>>> Result:
>>> http://www.dddbl.de/pg-truss-f.txt
>> [ scratches head ... ]  That looks like it got interrupted before
>> getting to anything interesting.  Did the console printout show any "Bad
>> system call" reports?
>
> I didn't see it mentioned earlier in this thread - is
> security.jail.sysvipc_allowed=1?  This will automatically be set to 1 if
> you have jail_sysvipc_allow="YES" in rc.conf.

Yes, it is:
# sysctl -a | grep sysvipc_allowed
security.jail.sysvipc_allowed: 1

Greetings,
Torsten