7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?

Hi Adam,

As other others have pointed out to you, this is because you haven't
configured the shared memory and semaphores settings yet.

There is also an installation guide for PostgreSQL 7.1 on Solaris that
has settings for his, as well as explaining how to get readline and
OpenSSL working.

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/installguides.html#solaris

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Adam Haberlach wrote:

I've been holding off installing 7.1 on my Solaris machine, since
it is at home and I didn't want to download it more then once, but
now that it is released, I've tried, and...

I built straight out of the box, using configure, the initdb seemed
to work, and now I get:

IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1245184, 03600) failed: Invalid argument

This error can be caused by one of three things:

1. The maximum size for shared memory segments on your system was
exceeded. You need to raise the SHMMAX parameter in your kernel
to be at least 1245184 bytes.

2. The requested shared memory segment was too small for your system.
You need to lower the SHMMIN parameter in your kernel.

3. The requested shared memory segment already exists but is of the
wrong size. This is most likely the case if an old version of
PostgreSQL crashed and didn't clean up. The `ipcclean' utility
can be used to remedy this.

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This is on the mostly-stock Solaris that came on my Netra X1 server.

# uname -a
SunOS snatch 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2

...anyone have any ideas?

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Adam Haberlach writes:

There is also an installation guide for PostgreSQL 7.1 on Solaris that
has settings for his, as well as explaining how to get readline and
OpenSSL working.

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/installguides.html#solaris

This is very handy, and since it seems to be the common one-line
response on this list, would there be any chance that PostgreSQL could
emit a URL like this when it fails for what I would expect to be a common
reason for those of us that are used to out-of-the-box Linux installs
and are becoming more and more frustrated with Sun's silly defaults?

If you had read the postmaster's error message to the end you would have
seen

: The PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide contains more information about
: shared memory configuration.

And then you would open up the Administrator's Guide, either on the
internet or locally, click on "Shared Memory and Semaphores" and there you
would find all the information you need.

At least this is how I imagined it. Is there a missing mental link?

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On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 03:12:38PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote:

Hi Adam,

As other others have pointed out to you, this is because you haven't
configured the shared memory and semaphores settings yet.

There is also an installation guide for PostgreSQL 7.1 on Solaris that
has settings for his, as well as explaining how to get readline and
OpenSSL working.

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/installguides.html#solaris

This is very handy, and since it seems to be the common one-line
response on this list, would there be any chance that PostgreSQL could
emit a URL like this when it fails for what I would expect to be a common
reason for those of us that are used to out-of-the-box Linux installs
and are becoming more and more frustrated with Sun's silly defaults?

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