On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 10:28, Randall Perry wrote: > On searching the archives I noticed Bob Smith in Jul, 2002 had a similar > problem to mine, but never posted a solution. > > I'm using pgsql 7.4.2 on Mac OS 10.3.4. I installed the startup script for > darwin from the contrib/start-scripts folder. On boot, pgsql startup fails > and I see this error in the pgsql logfile: > > bootstrap_look_up() failed (ipc/send) invalid destination port > > After the machine has booted the same startup script works fine. > > This appears to be a Mac OS issue. If anyone has any clue what's going on > please let me know. > > I've gotten around the problem right now by putting a call to the startup > script directly in /etc/rc, as the last command.
I've never run into this myself. Did you install from source or use Mark Liyanage's package? His package is at http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/ Very easy installation if you're willing to start over. -- Jeff Self Dept. of Information Technology City of Newport News 757.926.3741 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly