>I am seeing an odd failure of initdb.exe (postgres 8.0.1) on=20
>windows that
>I have not encountered before. The output from initdb is:
>
>The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/global ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_xlog ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_clog ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_subtrans ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/base ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/base/1 ... ok
>creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_tblspc ... ok
>selecting default max_connections ... 10
>selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
>creating configuration files ... ok
>creating template database in D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/base/1 ... FATAL:=20
>could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory
>DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=3D1, size=3D1163264, 03600).
>child process was terminated by signal 1
>initdb: failed
>initdb: removing data directory "D:/E-NetAware-Data/db"
Are you by any chance running this through terminal services? This looks
just like the error message you get if you try that.
//Magnus