Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F4A7067.50500@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:24:07 -0400 From: Jason House User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Simms CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: postgres help References: <3F46A361.7090603@mitre.org> <004001c3699b$95d8b300$3701a8c0@williethepimp> <3F4A064E.4080002@mitre.org> <000b01c36b44$b636d1e0$3701a8c0@williethepimp> In-Reply-To: <000b01c36b44$b636d1e0$3701a8c0@williethepimp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, deleting cygipc's temporary files in /tmp did the trick without any uninstalls. (The specific files are listed in the postgres readme) Jonathan Simms wrote: > I believe so. Anytime there could possibly be a version conflict, I usually > opt to only have one version installed. Even though it says that the two can > work side-by-side, I'd uninstall 2.x, install 1.14-1, get it working, then > (if you're brave) see if you can have both versions installed together. > > I haven't noticed any drawbacks to having 1.14-1 instead of 2.x, but then > again, I may not be using anything that *relies* on 2.x. > > Let me know how it works out for you. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason House" > To: "Jonathan Simms" > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:51 AM > Subject: Re: postgres help > > > >>I did get 1.14-1 from the site, but did not uninstall 2.x. Could that >>be causing a problem? >> >>Jonathan Simms wrote: >> >> >>>Oh, one more thing, I found that the latest version of cygipc (2.x) > > didn't > >>>work for me, initdb would fail every time. If this happens, download the >>>1.14-1 version of cygipc >>> >>> > > http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/cygipc-1.14-1.tar. > >>>bz2 >>> >>>uninstall the 2.x version and install the above version. >>> >>> >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Jason House" >>>To: ; >>>Cc: >>>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 7:12 PM >>>Subject: postgres help >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I've gone through all the steps to set up postgreSQL on windows XP. I >>>>have updated permissions (to /tmp /usr/bin /usr/bin/*), verified the >>>>system path variable, and verified that ipc and postmaster services have >>>>been started. I don't understand why I'm getting the following error: >>>> >>>>$ psql -U postgres template1 >>>>psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory >>>> Is the server running locally and accepting >>>> connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? >>>> >>>>The error does not change if I log in as myself or as postgres. >>>>Any hints as to what to try would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>>>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >>>>Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >>>>FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/