This happens for me too in Intrepid on AMD64, except pgsql attempts to
allocate 40MB while the shmax setting is still 32MB.

2008-11-02 00:31:09 GMT FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Invalid 
argument
2008-11-02 00:31:09 GMT DETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, 
size=39288832, 03600).
2008-11-02 00:31:09 GMT HINT:  This error usually means that PostgreSQL's 
request for a shared memory segment exceeded your kernel's SHMMAX parameter.  
You can either reduce the request size or reconfigure the kernel with larger 
SHMMAX.  To reduce the request size (currently 39288832 bytes), reduce 
PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 4096) and/or its 
max_connections parameter (currently 103).
        If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is less 
than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the request size or 
reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for.
        The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about shared 
memory configuration.

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pgsql fails to start due to shared buffer setting greater than kernel allows
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264336
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