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 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:42:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: yuri@nnov.mts.ru cc: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: pgsql on cygwin problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, yuri wrote: > Hello. I had a problem at installation postgesql as service nt. I do all > under the documentation which is in a file > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5.README > On item 8 at me there is a mistake at initialization of a database. > > $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > [snip] > Signal 12 ^^^^^^^^^ > initdb: failed > Prompt please in what there can be a problem. Signal 12 is "Bad system call". Quoting from /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5.README: --------------- Regardless of the installation type, the first step is to add "server" to your CYGWIN environment variable setting and start cygserver. See the cygserver README: /usr/share/doc/cygwin/cygserver.README for more details. If the CYGWIN variable is not set correctly and/or cygserver is not running then initdb and postmaster will fail to run properly. --------------- Looks like that's what's happening in your case. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/