Adrian Klaver <aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 09:17 am, Tom Lane wrote: >> Jon Lapham <lapham@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 65536) is >>> still in use >> >> This is extremely odd, because a shared memory block could not possibly >> have survived a reboot. > In the its a small world department I experienced the same problem shortly > after reading this message. I spent quite some time today trying to duplicate this failure (by pulling the plug on an up-to-date Fedora Core 5 machine). No luck. I suppose there is some contributing factor on your machines that we haven't identified yet ... regards, tom lane
