Re: initdb hangs

On Friday 25 Oct 2002 5:09 pm, Mike Schroepfer wrote:
> Hey Gary,
>
> Download from here and follow the readme:
>
> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/#LATEST
>
> Cygipc is deprecated but not yet replaced. Cheers,

Thanks for that Mike.

I've now got a working postgresql database on my laptop, and all I had to do
was change the path to the pgpsql handler and my database imported perfectly.

All I need to do now is get apache/perl/PHP and gvim working and I'm laughing.

Gary

>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Stainburn
> To: Mike Schroepfer; 'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org '
> Sent: 10/25/2002 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] initdb hangs
>
> On Friday 25 Oct 2002 4:57 pm, Mike Schroepfer wrote:
> > Hello Gary,
> >
> > Hanging in this spot on initdb usually means you do not have
> > the ipc-daemon.exe process running (from cygipc). Make sure you have
> > that running and you should be fine.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I had seen the mention about the cygipc in the readme, but I don't seem
> to
> have it installed and when I looked it up I saw a comment about it being
>
> depreciated and being replaced by functionality in the cygwin DLL. I
> therefore didnt' bother with it.
>
> How do I go about installing it? I've had a couple of looks at
> installing it
> through setup.exe but I can't find it in any of the categories. (I've
> got
> cygutils installed which I thought contained it)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Stainburn
> > To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Sent: 10/25/2002 8:54 AM
> > Subject: [CYGWIN] initdb hangs
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just installed the binary only cygwin today and I'm trying to get
> > postgesql working. I've had a quick look at the readme and the
>
> archives
>
> > and
> > I think I've done everything I need to (set
> > PGDATA=/usr/share/postgressql/data, made sure I've got entries in
>
> passwd
>
> > and
> > group etc.)
> >
> > When I run initdb (with the -D param and without), it hangs on the
> > bottom
> > line of the extract below. There is no disk activity and it doesn't
> > matter
> > how long I leave it.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >
> > gary(at)ladvent ~
> > $ initdb
> > The files belonging to the database system will be owned by user
>
> "gary".
>
> > This user bust also own the server process.
> >
> > Fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/share/postgresql/data...
> > ok
> > creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base... ok
> > creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/global... ok
> > creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
> > creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
> > creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1...

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