Re: INITDB error

All,

I think I figured out at least what I was doing wrong. I wiped my Cygwin
folder and started from scratch (again), then reinstalled with the
setup.exe. The only thing I did different this time was select the "UNIX"
text style option in the installer, and the initdb script works. I've
always been using DOS style before, and it never caused a problem.

In my case, it wasn't a big deal to reinstall everything, but perhaps I
could have just changed one of the environment variables - I'm guessing
MAKE_MODE might be it, but I really have no clue and I don't see anything in
the installed docs about switching from dos to unix.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Mike Leahy
Sent: December 13, 2003 3:24 PM
To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: jpraz(at)dplanet(dot)ch
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] INITDB error

All,

I'm back to the same problem as well. Just to be sure I reinstalled
everything to do with Cygwin (again), and now I get the same error. I can't

even guess why it worked the first try, since I haven't done anything
different this second time. Is there something we should be looking out
for?

Mike

(sorry if I sent this twice)

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-cygwin-
owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Praz
Sent: December 10, 2003 7:53 PM
To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] INITDB error

hi

in my installation on cygwin/winXP there is exactly the same error. i
updated cygwin before installing postgres 7.4.1, so i don't know what more
i could update there. before i ran postgres 7.3.x without any troubles.

does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
any help or ideas are welcome.

thanks,
jean-pierre

Running in noclean mode. Mistakes will not be cleaned up.
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "...".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/global... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... 100
selecting default shared_buffers... 1000
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1... ok
initializing pg_shadow... ok
enabling unlimited row size for system tables... ok
initializing pg_depend... ok
creating system views... ok
loading pg_description... ERROR: end-of-copy marker does not match
previous newline style
CONTEXT: COPY tmp_pg_description, line 1542: ""

initdb: failed
initdb: data directory
"/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data" not removed
at user's request

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