From: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Unhelpful initdb error message |
Date: | 2012-03-06 16:05:55 |
Message-ID: | CAA-aLv6t7V_2XRDrz9+DDrNXd0uK0k2AHCTwawAT0i2EeWqu9Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On 6 March 2012 16:02, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> thom(at)swift:~/Development$ initdb
>> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "thom".
>> This user must also own the server process.
>
>> The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_GB.UTF-8.
>> The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
>> The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
>
>> fixing permissions on existing directory /home/thom/Development/data ... ok
>> creating subdirectories ... ok
>> selecting default max_connections ... 10
>> selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB
>> creating configuration files ... ok
>> creating template1 database in /home/thom/Development/data/base/1 ...
>> FATAL: could not remove old lock file "postmaster.pid": No such file
>> or directory
>> HINT: The file seems accidentally left over, but it could not be
>> removed. Please remove the file by hand and try again.
>> child process exited with exit code 1
>> initdb: removing contents of data directory "/home/thom/Development/data"
>
> Um ... I assume this is some patched version rather than pristine
> sources? It's pretty hard to explain why it's falling over like that.
No, I did a "git stash", "git clean -f" and "git pull" before trying to build.
--
Thom
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