I installed the postgres version from the (freebsd) ports
collection. When I try to connect to the backend server, this
happens:

bash-2.02# su pgsql -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i  -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data -d 2"
FindExec: found "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
binding ShmemCreate(key=52e2c1, size=831176)
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop:            handling reading
5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop:            handling reading
5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: ServerLoop:            handling writing
5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 13290 user root db
template1 socket 5
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster child[13290]: starting with
(/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres, -p, -d2, -P5, -v131072, template1, )
FindExec: found "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
debug info:
        User         = root
        RemoteHost   = localhost
        RemotePort   = 0
        DatabaseName = template1
        Verbose      = 2
        Noversion    = f
        timings      = f
        dates        = Normal
        bufsize      = 64
        sortmem      = 512
        query echo   = f
InitPostgres
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 13290 exited with
status 140
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: reinitializing shared
memory and semaphores
shmem_exit(0) [#0]
Bad system call - core dumped

 Has anyone seen this?

-- 
 "A man's humor should exceed his grasp,
  that way he can make fun of things he doesn't understand."
 
Kurt Seel, Systems Engineer
Unified Technologies Corp.
Phone : 610 964 8200
Email : kseel@utcorp.com

Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:37:08 -0500
Kurt Seel <kseel@utcorp.com>
6.4 core dumping on freebsd 2.2.7