Thread: Problem to start ´postmaster´ on win95 (cygwin)

Hi,

I've installed the current (taken yesterday)  cygwin-version on win95
with the postgres-DB. I also installed the current version of cygipc.

After starting the ipc-daemon:

pgsql> ipc-daemon &

and setting up the database:

pgsql> initdb - D /path/to/db

which runs without any errors, I tried:

pgsql> postmaster -D /path/to/db

and got the error message:

"FATAL: StreamServerPort: socket() failed: Addresses in the specified
family cannot be used with this socket
/usr/bin/postmaster: cannot create UNIX stream port"

Can't find any hint in the documantation about this error :-((

Isn't it possible to run postgresql on Win95?
How to fix my problem?

BR Dirk Harms

Dirk,

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:53:11PM +0100, Dirk Harms wrote:
> pgsql> postmaster -D /path/to/db
>
> and got the error message:
>
> "FATAL: StreamServerPort: socket() failed: Addresses in the specified
> family cannot be used with this socket
> /usr/bin/postmaster: cannot create UNIX stream port"
>
> Can't find any hint in the documantation about this error :-((
>
> Isn't it possible to run postgresql on Win95?
> How to fix my problem?

Sorry I don't know, but I recall "issues" with Cygwin socket support
under very old version of Win95.  You may want to search the Cygwin
mailing list archives for known problems and hopefully some solutions.

Jason