Re: SIGNAL 12 on initDB command

Hi Mike,

Thanks. Adding Cygserver to the path fixed the problem.

Thanks,

Chatari Ramesh

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:54:19 -0500
mike g <mike(at)thegodshalls(dot)com> wrote:
>Did you add Cygserver to your path?
>
>Are you trying to run these as services? If so you probably need to
>uninstall the postmaster service and reinstall referencing cygserver
>instead of ipc-daemon2.
>
>Did you see the postmaster readme in the same directory as the
>cygserver
>readme? It has the updated installation instructions.
>
>Mike
>On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 17:26, Chatari S. Ramesh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am installing Cygwin in my Windows XP machine to use
>> PostgreSql.
>>
>> I have been having trouble running the initdb command.
>> Intially
>> I tried using the ipc-daemon2. After reading the archieve I found
>> that I need to use the Cygserver instead of ipc-daemon2. I followed
>> the documentation for Cygserver, did all the steps mentioned therein
>> and tried the initdb command. Still it fails with a lot of SIGNAL
>>12
>> messages as it did while using the ipc-daemon2. I would appreciate
>>if
>> I could get some info. on how to fix this problem. The screen print
>> from my initdb command is shown below:
>>
>> $ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
>> "c-chatari.ramesh".
>> This user must also own the server process.
>>
>> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>>
>> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
>> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
>> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
>> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
>> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
>> selecting default max_connections... Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> 10
>> selecting default shared_buffers... Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> Signal 12
>> 50
>> creating configuration files... ok
>> creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1...
>>Signal
>> 12
>>
>> initdb: failed
>> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chatari Ramesh
>>
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