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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:50:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Natalie Menk <n_menk AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL: initdb fails with v7.4.2 - postmaster fork error with v7.4.1
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Natalie Menk wrote:

> The installed cygwin is version 1.5.10-3 and I use cygipc 2.03-2.
> MS Win XP
> --------------------------------
>
> n AT n ~
> $ psql --version
> psql (PostgreSQL) 7.4.2
> contains support for command-line editing
>
> n AT n ~
> $ ipc-daemon2 &
> [1] 2840
>
> n AT n ~
> $ initdb -D edge_inline
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "n".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory edge_inline... ok
> creating directory edge_inline/base... ok
> creating directory edge_inline/global... ok
> creating directory edge_inline/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory edge_inline/pg_clog... ok
> selecting default max_connections... Signal 12
> Signal 12

$ kill -l
 1) SIGHUP       2) SIGINT       3) SIGQUIT      4) SIGILL
 5) SIGTRAP      6) SIGABRT      7) SIGEMT       8) SIGFPE
 9) SIGKILL     10) SIGBUS      11) SIGSEGV     12) SIGSYS
[...]                                               ^^^^^^
$ grep SIGSYS /usr/include/sys/signal.h
#define SIGSYS  12      /* bad argument to system call */
$

> [snip]
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "edge_inline"

Did you read the announcement:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00457.html>?  Quoting:

> The following are the notable changes since the previous release:
>
>     o build against cygserver instead of cygipc
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     o upgrade to PostgreSQL 7.4.2

This information should also be in the Cygwin-specific README
(/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.2.README), which contains the
instructions on running the new PostgreSQL.

As for your fork error, try Googling for the exact error message -- there
are plenty of threads on the subject.
	Igor
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