Hi Tom,
>> Please notice, that after changing the IPC-Settings of the system, no
>> core-file is dumped anymore. Quiet interessting.
>
> How annoying :-(. I think what you need to do is use truss or strace
> or local equivalent with the follow-forks flag, so that you can see what
> the stand-alone backend process does, not just initdb itself.
Ok, next round. I just have truss as an option, because strace didn't
work at my AMD64. Hope its helpfull:
$ truss -f -o /tmp/pgtuss-f.txt /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data
Result:
http://www.dddbl.de/pg-truss-f.txt
Greetings,
Torsten