> This is a fairly spectacular failure :-(. As far as I can see from the > semctl and shmctl man pages, the only plausible reason for EINVAL is > that something had deleted the semaphores and shared memory out from > under Postgres. I do not believe that Postgres itself could have done > that --- it had to be some external agency. Unless the kernel is > broken, whatever requested those deletions had to be running as root or > as postgres in order to have the necessary permissions. You sure you > didn't have some loose-cannon script running around issuing ipcrm > commands?
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