Re: initdb failing

On 10/07/2009 01:24 AM, Scott Mead wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Sachin Srivastava
> <sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> <mailto:sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 10/06/2009 11:41 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>
> On 06/10/2009 19:00, Sachin Srivastava wrote:
>
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory
> d:/base/netscope/pg/data ... ok
> * creating subdirectories ... initdb: could not create
> directory
> "d:/base/netscope/pg": File exists
> *initdb: data directory "d:/base/netscope/pg/data" not
> removed at user's
> request
>
> Could it be that the "..../data" directory isn't empty? I
> think initdb
> will fail if this is the case.
>
> its empty or i say its newly created.
>
>
> Because you're using the -n flag, after you run initdb once, the
> directory is left there. Delete the 'data' directory and try again.
Actually i put the -n and -d flags just to get more information about
what all has been created but they remain empty. Nevertheless tried
removing the old data directory and without -n option still got the same
output.
>
> --Scott
>

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