Re: initdb error

On 12/13/12, David Noel <david(dot)i(dot)noel(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm running into the following error message when running initdb (FreeBSD
> host):
>
> ygg# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb -D /zdb/pgsql/data --debug
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "pgsql".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locales
> COLLATE: C
> CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
> MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8
> MONETARY: en_US.UTF-8
> NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8
> TIME: en_US.UTF-8
> The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
>
> creating directory /zdb/pgsql/data ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 100
> selecting default shared_buffers ... 32MB
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in /zdb/pgsql/data/base/1 ... FATAL:
> could not open file "pg_xlog/000000010000000000000001" (log file 0,
> segment 1): No such file or directory
> child process exited with exit code 1
> initdb: removing data directory "/zdb/pgsql/data"
>
> My best guess is that it has something to do with permissions, but I
> really have no idea. Has anyone seen this before and found a way
> around it?
>
> -David

Interestingly, I have a second--virtually identical--server that I
just tried initdb on. FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5, postgresql-server-9.2.2.
Exact same "FATAL: could not open file pg_xlog" error. So it is
reproducible.