On Monday 25 September 2006 02:48 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > 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 Is there something I could do to help capture useful information should I see a repeat of this behavior? -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx