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From: Paul Brown <pbrown@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: OSF/1 installation...
To: wei@u.washington.edu (Xinguo Wei)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 15:17:09 -0800 (PST)
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the final version of Postgres onto our Dec Alpha OSF/1 
> machine.  This time it passed the initdb command but failed at the 
> postmaster command with the following message:
> 
> % IpcMemoryAttach: shmat() failed: Permission denied
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas on this one?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Xinguo Wei
> 

  REF: Postgres Reference Manual, pg 33.

   'A likely explaination is that another user attempted to start a
    postmaster process on the same port which acquired shared resources
    and then died.'

   Given that the previous attempt resulted in an ugly *splat* this
   seems plausible.

   Try running 'ipcclean' and doing it again.



  

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