[Fwd: Re: I can't inicializate PostgreSQL]

Hello PostgreSQL hackers,

I'm forwarding an extract of a message from the cygwin mailing list.

The thread which started the message was:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00712.html

The problem is illustrated below:
(If it's of any use, Cygserver has been run successfully and CYGWIN=server was set.)

-------FORWARDED MESSAGE ------------

$ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data
The files belonging to this database system will be
owned by user "admin".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale
C.

creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data... ok
creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base...
ok
creating directory
/usr/share/postgresql/data/global... ok
creating directory
/usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory
/usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... 10
selecting default shared_buffers... 50
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in
/usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1... FATAL:
shmat(id=1179648) failed: Invalid argument

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory
"/usr/share/postgresql/data"

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What does the line

"FATAL: shmat(id=1179648) failed: Invalid argument".

mean?

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Carlo
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Carlo Florendo
Astra Philippines Inc.
www.astra.ph