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[Sovello Hildebrand Mgani <sovellohpmgani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.
I am glad this is resolved for now.

Cheers


2013/5/23 Sovello Hildebrand Mgani <sovellohpmgani@xxxxxxxxx>

> I am bringing this forward to you guys that you may help:
> Here are the details of the error. I got it on installing Postgres 9.2
> after removing 9.1 _completely_.
> I also have these values set and loaded with sudo sysctl -p.
>
> kernel.shmmax = 4294967296
> net.core.rmem_max = 8388608
> net.core.wmem_max = 8388608
>
> But when I do sudo sysctl -a | grep shhmax it outputs kernel.shmmax=0
>
> [Details for the Postgresql Error]
>
> Creating new cluster (configuration: /etc/postgresql/9.2/main, data:
> /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main)...
> FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument
> DETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1835008, 03600).
> HINT:  This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared
> memory segment exceeded your kernel's SHMMAX parameter.  You can either
> reduce the request size or reconfigure the kernel with larger SHMMAX.  To
> reduce the request size (currently 1835008 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's
> shared memory usage, perhaps by reducing shared_buffers or max_connections.
>     If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is less
> than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the request size
> or reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for.
>     The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about shared
> memory configuration.
> child process exited with exit code 1
> initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main"
> Error: initdb failed
>
> Thanking in advance
>
> Cheerio!
>
> --
> :: Sovello Hildebrand Mgani ::
>
>
>
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