Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Torsten Zhlsdorff's message of mi ago 11 02:52:34 -0400 2010:
>>>> Bad system call (core dumped)
> I think you should try harder to generate the core file. Maybe you have
> too low an "ulimit -c" setting?
The kernel message indicates that core *is* being dumped. Possibly it's
being dumped in the $PGDATA directory, which initdb will rm -rf on
failure. Try using initdb --noclean.
regards, tom lane