Did you build the kernel with IPC enabled?
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Thyagarajan wrote:
> Hi all
> I am in a fix right now - i have been trying to install Postgres
> 6.4.2 on Linux ( Calderra Open Linux).
> Everything goes on fine - i.e. configure,installation etc.
>
> At the time of starting of the Postmaster ( postmaster -S -D 'Data
> Directory'), I get the following error :
>
> IPCMemoryCreate : shmget (identifies removed) Key=5432010
> size=24588, permission =700 .
> IPCMemoryAttach : shmget (identifies removed) Key=5432010
> size=24588, permission =0 .
> IPCMemoryCreate : shmat failed (invalid argument) id=2 .
> FATAL 1 : AttachSLockMemory : could not attach segment .
>
> It will be really very kind of you if you could help me out.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Thyaga
>
>
>
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