Re: Bug Report: 7.1.3 initdb fails on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE/Alpha

From: "Jeff Duffy" <jeff(at)alanne(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug Report: 7.1.3 initdb fails on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE/Alpha
Date: 2001-10-19 16:39:55
Message-ID: KBECLONBMDBHBIFDJMKDEENLCBAA.jeff@alanne.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:43 AM
> To: Jeff Duffy
> Cc: pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [PORTS] Bug Report: 7.1.3 initdb fails on FreeBSD
> 4.4-RELEASE/Alpha
>
>
> "Jeff Duffy" <jeff(at)alanne(dot)com> writes:
> > Creating template1 database in /var/pgsql/data/base/1
> > FATAL 2: control file context is broken
>
> Hmm. The only prior report I've seen of that error message was from
> someone whose system clock was several decades off (there's a
> not-very-well-considered test of the timestamp range included in that
> check in 7.1.* :-().

caemlyn$ date
Sat Sep 13 09:57:12 EST 1913

Setting the date correctly fixed the problem.

Thanks.

Jeff

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