Re: During InitDB: could not access file "$

Hello Laurent,

Hmm, no. I have no McAfee running.

I tried disabling my anti-virus though (Avast) but that didn't help. I
do have many other processes running, I am not sure which I should
disable for it to work (or if it is even connected)...

Regards,
Vitaly Belman

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Sunday, March 28, 2004, 12:31:43 AM, you wrote:

LB> Hello,

LB> Did you have McAfee Viruscan 7 installed on your computer?

LB> I had the same error one month ago, and I solve it by disable the Hostile
LB> Actvity Watch Kernel (HAWK) for mail and script in Viruscan. Now
LB> postmaster/postgres process start correctly and you can use createdb and
LB> others tools like pgAdmin III.

LB> Regards

LB> Laurent Ballester

LB> ----- Original Message -----
LB> From: "Vitaly Belman" <vitalib(at)012(dot)net(dot)il>
LB> To: <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
LB> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 5:08 PM
LB> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] During InitDB: could not access file "$

>> Hello PGSQL,
>>
>> CN> Try: make install
>>
>> CN> Cheers,
>> CN> Claudio
>>
>> Thanks, that did the trick =)
>>
>> Now I have a new trouble though.
>>
>> InitDB finished fine and I starter Postmaster:
>>
>> > "D:/Linux/msys/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster.exe" -i -D data
>> >
>> > LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-03-26 18:02:03 FLE Standard
LB> Time
>> > LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/A02AD0
>> > LOG: redo record is at 0/A02AD0; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
>> > LOG: next transaction ID: 455; next OID: 17207
>> > LOG: database system is ready
>> > LOG: select() failed in statistics buffer: No error
>> > LOG: select() failed in statistics collector: No such file or directory
>> > LOG: statistics collector process (PID 4100) was terminated by signal 1
>>
>> It already looked bad because of these "No such file or directory".
>>
>> However, I tried to connect to the DB using psql:
>>
>> > psql
>> > psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly
>> > This probably means the server terminated abnormally
>> > before or while processing the request.
>>
>> The server said on that:
>>
>> > LOG: could not receive data from client: No such file or directory
>> > LOG: incomplete startup packet
>>
>> Using the "createdb" executeable yielded the same result :(.
>>
>> What file does it want now? =\
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vitaly Belman
>>
>> ICQ: 1912453
>> AIM: VitalyB1984
>> MSN: tmdagent(at)hotmail(dot)com
>> Yahoo!: VitalyBe
>>
>> Friday, March 26, 2004, 2:36:10 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> >> From MSYS I did:
>> >> * configure --without-zlib
>> >> * make
>>
>> CN> Try: make install
>>
>> CN> Cheers,
>> CN> Claudio
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