On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Brad Nicholson <bnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Would you try strace'ing postmaster start to see what gets passed to the > >> socket() and bind() calls just before this message comes out? > > > Here is the relative output from truss. > > > socket(2, 2, 0) = 7 > > bind(7, 0x00000001100E3BF0, 16) Err#13 EACCES > > Well, that's pretty odd --- I'd have expected to see something involving > 127.0.0.1 (ie, 7F000001 in one byte order or another). Does your > /etc/hosts file map "localhost" to something other than 127.0.0.1? Nope, it maps localhost to 127.0.0.1 > Also, do regular connections to this postmaster work across TCP/IP? > If getaddrinfo() is broken I'd expect there to be problems binding > to the postmaster's listen socket too ... Yes, TCP/IP connections work fine. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.
