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: <412F9A8B.5040305@cox.net> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:33:15 -0400 From: "David A. Cobb" Reply-To: Superbiskit@cox.net, Cygwin General Discussion User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7+ (Windows/20040822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin General Discussion Subject: [BUG] Bad File Descriptor while trying to set up postgresql Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020204030806070803050502" X-IsSubscribed: yes --------------020204030806070803050502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At first, this stopped me entirely from initializing postgres; however, today the initdb & createdb succeeded -- I don't know what changed. In any case, references to the database directory during the initdb incur a Bad File Descriptor complaint when trying to set permissions. The partition where the database lives is FAT32 -- it needs to be because it is also visible from my Linux dual-boot. I know permissions on a FAT32 volume are, at best, faked. But IMHO it shouldn't incur this sort of error. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! --------------020204030806070803050502 Content-Type: text/plain; name="initdb_20040827.log" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="initdb_20040827.log" Running in debug mode. initdb: internal variables: PGDATA=/var/database/pgsql datadir=/usr/share/postgresql PGPATH=/usr/bin ENCODING=UTF-8 ENCODINGID=6 POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.description POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.sample The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. fixing permissions on existing directory /var/database/pgsql... chmod: changing permissions of `/var/database/pgsql': Bad file descriptor initdb: failed total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres None 0 Aug 5 11:27 Debian_Packages drwxr-xr-x 5 postgres None 0 Aug 25 13:25 Marathon drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres None 0 Aug 25 11:22 Zeos drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres None 0 Aug 25 22:24 pgsql --------------020204030806070803050502 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="Superbiskit.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Superbiskit.vcf" begin:vcard fn:David A. Cobb n:Cobb;David A. adr:;;7 Lenox Av #1;West Warwick;RI;02893-3918;USA email;internet:Superbiskit@cox.net title:Independent Software Consultant note:PGP Key ID#0x4C293929 effective 01/28/2004 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------020204030806070803050502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ --------------020204030806070803050502--