Re: initdb problem...

Chris,

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:35:07PM -0400, chris markiewicz wrote:
> we have been trying to run postgres on a win2000 machine. got the latest
> cygwin stuff today (4/11/2001) and installed it. initdb hangs. i checked
> the archives and found the following thread (the following link has the
> final leaf of the thread):

What does uname -r display? If it indicates "1.1.8...", then you must
upgrade to a recent snapshot.

> http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-ports/2001-03/msg00124.html

The above is only relevant *if* you are building PostgreSQL yourself --
not if you are using a pre-built version.

Just to be sure, are you using the 7.1rc4 that I contributed to Cygwin?

> i also have debug information (see end of email).

Sorry, but I can't make much out of your debug info.

> Does all of this mean that i need to grab a recent development snapshot of
> the cygwin1.dll file?

Most likely, see the following for one way of replacing your Cygwin DLL:

http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-ports/2001-03/msg00096.html

> IF SO...(i know this is a question for cygwin, but since we're here) i go to
> the snapshot area and click on the ftp link and i get a "page cannot be
> displayed" message. what am i doing wrong?

No one can download from the Cygwin FTP site anymore. You must use a
mirror. Try the following:

ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/snapshots/

> Running with debug mode on.
>
> Initdb variables:
> PGDATA=/usr/bin/data

BTW, the above is a strange value for PGDATA. I would use
/usr/share/postgresql/data instead.

Jason

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