We normally don't go into that much detail in the FAQ unless someone is seeing that problem case a lot.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Pais wrote: > > Just an explanation in the FAQ that the ipc-daemon is not running won't suffice. >Because in my case I had ipc-daemon (version 1.11) running and it still hung (Jason's >patch reported the IpcMemoryCreate error). Only when I downgraded to version 1.09 >(office) and upgraded to 1.13 (home) did initdb succeed. So I'd suggest also >covering this scenario. > Thanks, > Richard > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At least that is an FAQ item. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jason Tishler wrote: > > Tom, > > Peter, > > > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:05:25PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:43:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > If you can detect that cygipc is not running, then ENOSYS seems the > > > > best choice for reporting that. (ENOSPC would be misleading too.) > > > > > > Thanks for your feedback. I will take this to the Cygwin list and see > > > what happens. > > > > I happy to report that the above has been accomplished: > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-11/msg00025.html > > > > Hopefully, the Cygwin initdb and postmaster hang posts will be a thing > > of the past. Unfortunately, they probably will be replaced by questions > > like: > > > > Why does initdb fail with "IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(...) failed: > > Function not implemented?" > > > > Jason > > > > -- > > PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers > > Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > -- > Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road > + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
