From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Samuel Stearns <SStearns@internode.com.au>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Postgres Crash
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:25:03 -0500
Message-ID: <12695.1291951503@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68B59BEDCD36854AADBDF17E91B2937A07844CD029@EXCHMAIL.staff.internode.com.au>
References: <68B59BEDCD36854AADBDF17E91B2937A07844CD029@EXCHMAIL.staff.internode.com.au>
Samuel Stearns <SStearns@internode.com.au> writes:
> Environment:
> Solaris 10
> Postgres 8.3.12
> Postgres crashed and left 26 postmaster processes active in it's wake. Killed the children and re-started postgres successfully. Messages from the log:
> Dec 10 11:52:15 udrv postgres[771]: [ID 748848 local0.info] [6-1] host=,user=,db= LOG: setsockopt(TCP_NODELAY) failed: Invalid argument
> Dec 10 11:52:20 udrv postgres[2183]: [ID 748848 local0.error] [1-1] host=,user=,db= FATAL: pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 0) is still in use
> Dec 10 11:52:20 udrv postgres[2183]: [ID 748848 local0.error] [1-2] host=,user=,db= HINT: If you're sure there are no old server processes still running, remove the shared memory block with the
> Dec 10 11:52:20 udrv postgres[2183]: [ID 748848 local0.error] [1-3] command "ipcclean", "ipcrm", or just delete the file "postmaster.pid".
> With the 'FATAL' and 'HINT' lines repeating.
> Any ideas what occurred here?
Nope. The log entries above are from the restart attempt, and give no
information about the crash. If you have any log entries from before
that, or have a core file that would yield a backtrace, maybe we could
draw some conclusions from that info.
regards, tom lane
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