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To: Adam Haberlach <adam@newsnipple.com>
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Subject: Re: 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
Date: 14 Apr 2001 20:51:06 -0400
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Adam Haberlach <adam@newsnipple.com> writes:

> I've been holding off installing 7.1 on my Solaris machine, since
> it is at home and I didn't want to download it more then once, but
> now that it is released, I've tried, and...
> 
> I built straight out of the box, using configure, the initdb seemed
> to work, and now I get:
> 
> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1245184, 03600) failed: Invalid argument
> 
> This error can be caused by one of three things:

[...]

> This is on the mostly-stock Solaris that came on my Netra X1 server.
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS snatch 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
> 
> ...anyone have any ideas?

What part of the error message was unclear?  Have you checked your
kernel shared memory settings?

-Doug