From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 12:11:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA21593 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:11:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from base486.synet.net (imdave@DIAL45.SYNET.NET [168.113.1.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA21587 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from imdave@localhost) by base486.synet.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA21407; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:11:07 -0600 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:11:07 -0600 From: Dave Bodenstab Message-Id: <199611052011.OAA21407@base486.synet.net> To: robert@chalmers.com.au Subject: Re: [q] postgres95 again. sorry. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Firstly: I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-SNAP, from Feb/March. Pentium 120. > I've combed the Makefile.global carefully. I'm running: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP > > Well, I rekon there is a glitch somewhere. Perhaps it is the flex-2.5.3 > after all, but where? >From flex 2.5.4's (available on ftp://ee.lbl.gov/flex*) NEWS: Changes between release 2.5.4 (11Sep96) and release 2.5.3: - Fixed a bug introduced in 2.5.3 that blew it when a call to input() occurred at the end of an input file. - Fixed scanner skeleton so the example in the man page of scanning strings using exclusive start conditions works. - Minor Makefile tweaks. > I then did the gmake install, checked the log. perfect. > > I then tried a "postmaster -d >& pm.log &" startup, and of course it > bombed. as it should. > > I then did the 'initdb", which worked fine, > > I then did the "postmaster ...." bit again, and bang! it blows up. I assume you're running as the correct uid... > or is it something else. A bad system call indicates something wrong in > the actual function calls? anyway, here's the little logs of startup; Do you have SYSV IPC shared memory enabled in your kernel? Dave Bodenstab imdave@synet.net