Re: Problem with initdb -W

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problem with initdb -W
Date: 2002-11-25 21:38:17
Message-ID: 041601c294ca$f7b564c0$6500a8c0@internal
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> I have an IRC report, confirmed, that in RC2 initdb -W (set super-user
> password) fails:
>
> Enter new superuser password:
> Enter it again:
> setting password...
> The group file wasn't generated. Please report this problem.
>
> initdb failed.
> Removing /u/pg/data.

I had actually experienced this problem as well on a one-off test machine.
However I just put it down to weirdness and didn't follow it up...sorry...

Chris

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