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Re: error when I try to run 'initdb' under cygwin... help plz...
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Flávio Henrique <flavinhohenrique at terra dot com dot br>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:00:43 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: error when I try to run 'initdb' under cygwin... help plz...
- References: <005601c3f4cc$7e227900$33c8a8c0@adsl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Flávio Henrique wrote:
> Hi all...
> I'm newbie with cygwin but I'm receiving a error message when I try to run
> 'initdb' here...
>
> Look:
> I'm using win98 and I want to run postgresql...
> I installed cygwin from Internet and everything goes fine...
> I open a bash shell and run 'ipc-daemon &'... ok...
> When I run 'initdb -D /var/psql' the error:
>
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "dug".
> This user must also own the server process.
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
> fixing permissions on existing directory /var/psql... ok
> creating directory /var/psql/base... ok
> creating directory /var/psql/global... ok
> creating directory /var/psql/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory /var/psql/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers... 50
> creating configuration files... ok
> creating template1 database in /var/psql/base/1...
> FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600).
> initdb: failed
>
> What's wrong? some package that I don't install ?
> what now ?
>
> thanx for any hint
> Flavio Henrique
Do you Google: <http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+initdb+failed>?
Also, the first place to look if there's an error is the README files
(Cygwin-specific at /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.1.README, and
package at /usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.4.1/README).
Igor
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