X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:07:27 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin Message-ID: <20060113110727.GY32312@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: > Hello, > > When I try to initialise the postgresql database cluster with initdb > it generates the > following errors : > > $ initdb -D pgsql_data/ > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "am". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. > > fixing permissions on existing directory pgsql_data/... ok > creating directory pgsql_data//base... ok > creating directory pgsql_data//global... ok > creating directory pgsql_data//pg_xlog... ok > creating directory pgsql_data//pg_clog... ok > selecting default max_connections... /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 2152 Bad system > call "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x0 $TEST_OPT template1 /dev/ > null 2>&1 > /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call "$PGPATH"/postgres -boo Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/