Re: initdb and postgresql 8

Marek Lewczuk schrieb:
> Ok. After installing 8.0.0cvs version from cygwin's packages innitdb
> returns other errors:
>
> $ initdb
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "ml".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_subtrans ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> Signal 12
> 50
> creating configuration files ... ok

everything okay so far.

> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... Signal 12
> child process exited with exit code 140

aha.

> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

$ net helpmsg 140

Das System hat versucht, einem Verzeichnis, das sich auf einem mit SUBST
zugeordneten Laufwerk befindet, ein Laufwerk mit JOIN zuzuordnen.

(this is my german message)
did you try this on a subst'ed drive?
is cygwin root a subst'ed drive?

if not, please post the output of "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out"
as text attachement as described in http://cygwin.com/problems.html
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/