X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:07:55 +0200 From: Adrian Maier To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin In-Reply-To: <20060113110727.GY32312@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060113110727 DOT GY32312 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k0DE84I9019882 On 1/13/06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call "$PGPATH"/postgres -boo > > Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? I hadn't read that file. Started the cygserver, but initdb still crashes. On the other hand, I have managed to install the native PostgreSQL and connect to it from cygwin. This solution is perfectly acceptable for me. Thanks for the answer, Adrian Maier -- 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/