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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc AT alltel DOT net>
To: "Cygwin Mail List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Postgres not working anymore
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:17:31 -0400
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I just noticed Postgres stopped working on my installation.
That is postmaster starts up and immediately stops running.
I definately had a working installation on July 2.

In any event I decided to login to postgres id and recreate the initial 
database

$ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data
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.

creating directory /var/postgresql/data... ok
creating directory /var/postgresql/data/base... ok
creating directory /var/postgresql/data/global... ok
creating directory /var/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /var/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
cp: cannot stat `/dev/null.exe': No such file or directory

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/var/postgresql/data"

postgres AT agamemnon /var/postgresql
$ ls /dev/null
/dev/null

Is this related to the coreutils update and the thread entitled "Unwanted 
.exe appended to symlinks"?

--
J Lambert



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