On 2/4/2016 12:47, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: >> Karl Denninger <k...@denninger.net> writes: >>> $ initdb -D data-default >>> ... >>> creating template1 database in data-default/base/1 ... FATAL: could not >>> create semaphores: Invalid argument >>> DETAIL: Failed system call was semget(2, 17, 03600). >> Hmm. On my Linux box, "man semget" says EINVAL means >> EINVAL nsems is less than 0 or greater than the limit on the number >> of >> semaphores per semaphore set (SEMMSL), or a semaphore set >> corre- >> sponding to key already exists, and nsems is larger than >> the >> number of semaphores in that set. >> which agrees with the POSIX spec. Is FreeBSD the same? > BTW, looking at the code, I see that during initdb we would have tried > semaphore key 1 before 2. So presumably, on key 1 we got an error code > that we recognized as meaning "semaphore set already exists", but then on > key 2 we got EINVAL instead. That makes this even more curious. I'd > be interested to see what "ipcs -s" says, if you have that command. > (You might need to run it as root to be sure it will show all sempaphores.) > > regards, tom lane There was indeed a "2" key out by the web server process; I shut it down and cleared it and the upgrade is now running....
Also filed a kernel bug with the FreeBSD folks against 10.2-STABLE as the man page says you should have gotten back EEXIST. -- Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/
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