tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Lane) writes: > 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 right. Note that the 0x00000001100E3BF0 value is not an IP address; it is a pointer to a (struct sockaddr *). > 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 ... There's evidently a difference between TCP and UDP, here.
