On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Matthias Schmitt
<matthias.schm...@mmp.lu> wrote:
> since two weeks I am trying to get PostgreSQL 9.5.1 to run on Debian 8.3. 
> Everything is fine except the daily backup. When calling pg_dump as part of a 
> cron job pg_dump crashes:
>
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETFATAL:  semctl(23232524, 3, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid 
> argument
> 2016-03-15 01:00:02 CETLOG:  server process (PID 22279) exited with exit code 
> 1
> [...]
> 4th  possible solution: I have read here: 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-April/018373.html
> that logging into the postgres user in and out might delete semaphore memory, 
> but I cannot reproduce this.

That's scary, and an entrance for many crashes... Perhaps there are
some underlying calls of ipcrm?

> Interesting enough I have another PostgreSQL version running perfectly under 
> Debian 8.3 on a different machine. This is a PostgreSQL 9.4.1. It uses the 
> same backup mechanism. I hate to consider a downgrade as a possible solution. 
> May be an info, which might be useful: my machine has 64 GB RAM.
>
> Any ideas where to continue my search?

Hm, and both of them are managed with systemd? Are there differences
in each one's spec file, I find rather bad the fact that there is
something removing the semaphores at OS level all-of-a-sudden.
-- 
Michael


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