On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Flávio Henrique wrote: > Hi all... > I'm newbie with cygwin but I'm receiving a error message when I try to run > 'initdb' here... > > Look: > I'm using win98 and I want to run postgresql... > I installed cygwin from Internet and everything goes fine... > I open a bash shell and run 'ipc-daemon &'... ok... > When I run 'initdb -D /var/psql' the error: > > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "dug". > This user must also own the server process. > The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. > fixing permissions on existing directory /var/psql... ok > creating directory /var/psql/base... ok > creating directory /var/psql/global... ok > creating directory /var/psql/pg_xlog... ok > creating directory /var/psql/pg_clog... ok > selecting default max_connections... 10 > selecting default shared_buffers... 50 > creating configuration files... ok > creating template1 database in /var/psql/base/1... > FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented > DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1081344, 03600). > initdb: failed > > What's wrong? some package that I don't install ? > what now ? > > thanx for any hint > Flavio Henrique
Do you Google: <http://google.com/search?q=cygwin+initdb+failed>? Also, the first place to look if there's an error is the README files (Cygwin-specific at /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.1.README, and package at /usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.4.1/README). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
