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Re: error when I try to run 'initdb' under cygwin... help plz...


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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