Re: initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2.6

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fuat Atabey <atabey(at)in(dot)tum(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, Asa McWilliams <macwilli(at)in(dot)tum(dot)de>, Fuat Atabey <fuat(dot)ata(at)gmx(dot)de>, richy <kayali(at)in(dot)tum(dot)de>, Christian Sandor <sandor(at)in(dot)tum(dot)de>, Martin Wagner <wagnerm(at)in(dot)tum(dot)de>, Andi Loehr <aloehr(at)inmedius(dot)de>
Subject: Re: initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2.6
Date: 2003-07-20 04:52:01
Message-ID: 19975.1058676721@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fuat Atabey <atabey(at)in(dot)tum(dot)de> writes:
> [macbruegge65:~/Applications/pgsql] atabey% bin/initdb -D data
> ...
> creating template1 database in data/base/1... bin/initdb: line 582:
> 7349 Abort trap "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x1 $PGSQL_OPT
> $BACKEND_TALK_ARG template1

> initdb failed.

Hmm ... the "abort" bit is odd, seeing that you didn't configure with
--enable-cassert. Is there a core file? If so, can you get a stack
trace from it?

Also, does it work any better if you specify an absolute rather than
relative path in -D ?

regards, tom lane

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