On 05.10.20 13:22, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > I've used PostgreSQL since version 9.x successfully on Linux, macOS > and Windows. Today I've upgraded from 12.3 to 13.0 and suddenly I can > not start the server any more on Ubuntu 20.04 (inside Docker on Ubuntu > 18.04) and on macOS 10.15. > > I get reproducibly the error: > 2020-10-05 11:48:19.720 CEST [84731] WARNING: dup(0) failed after 0 successes: Bad file descriptor > 2020-10-05 11:48:19.720 CEST [84731] FATAL: insufficient file descriptors available to start server process > 2020-10-05 11:48:19.720 CEST [84731] DETAIL: System allows 0, we need at least 58. > 2020-10-05 11:48:19.720 CEST [84731] LOG: database system is shut down > > What makes this quite curious is that everything continues to work on > Ubuntu 18.04, and Windows with Visual Studio 2019. > > I compile postgreSQL myself from source, but there are no patches or > tweaks involved (that I could think relevant for this problem). > > I've searched for the particular error and understand that it is usually > caused by system limits on new files(?) But in my case, the failing > setups are relatively modern, powerful CI test machines, with virtually > no load at the time of test. > > On Linux Ubuntu 20.04, `ulimit -n` shows `1048576` which seems also > relatively high (but must be the default, not changed by me). > > Does this problem mean anything to anyone? I'm completely lost where > to go from here, or what to try next :-( Help would be greatly > appreciated! I've just regression-tested 12.4 for the above problem, and I can now isolate that 12.3 and 12.4 do _not_ give me above problem whereas 13.0 _does_ give me above problem. I tried also to isolate commits that may be related, but could not find anything useful :-( Help would be greatly appreciated! All the best, Mario Emmenlauer