On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:11:00AM -0300, Jon Lapham wrote: > I recently had another electrical power outage that left my machine > unable to restart postgresql. I had previously reported this a while ago: FWIW, I've crashed my machine a lot of times and never run into this problem. However, I run Debian, maybe they do something different. > Looking at $PGLOG, I discovered: > FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 65536) is > still in use > HINT: If you're sure there are no old server processes still running, > remove the shared memory block with the command "ipcclean", "ipcrm", or > just delete the file "postmaster.pid". This doesn't make sense to me. A reboot will absolutly kill any existing shared memory blocks, how can it possibly be complaining about it? What does ipcs show after the failure to start postgres? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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