Re: PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)

From: koester(at)x-itec(dot)de
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)
Date: 2005-02-21 22:18:45
Message-ID: 1178306914.20050221231845@freenet.de
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Hello Tom,

Monday, February 21, 2005, 4:27:42 PM, you wrote:

>> initdb fails with the following informations:

>> copying template1 to template0 ... cp:
>> /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/16384: Invalid argument
..
>> FATAL: could not initialize database directory
>> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
..

> Complain to some FreeBSD hackers? This seems like it must be a kernel
> bug (or perhaps a bug in cp itself). I don't think Postgres did
> anything wrong.

That was ist. There was a bug in the 5.2.1-r11 version, recompiling
and updating the userland to 5.3 fixed the problem.

Thanks a lot!

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Best regards,
Bo
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