Help required with installing postgreSQL on SCO Openserver - Mailing list pgsql-general

Philippe

I am making progress (actually I am making Postgres -- yeah, the jokes get
worse towards the end of the week)

I downloaded PostgreSQL Version 7.2 and both the "gmake" and the "gmake
install" worked :)
However, there were lots of "warnings" during the compiles.

I followed (most of) the INSTALL instructions and I got as far as
sucessfully running "initdb"
But my joy was short lived.  When I tried to run the "postmaster" command, I
got the attached error message.

At this stage I must say that I was very impressed at the "user friendly"
error message that came up.  Unfortunately, it hasn't helped me much.

The error message suggested that "SHMMAX" was too small.  This was probably
true, because it is set to 524,288 bytes which is 1024 Kb.

The Administrators Guide sugested I try "postoffice -D data -B 24 -N 12".

I have tried this, abd postoffice still refuses to run.

If I have to, I will reconfigure the kernal as sugested in the manual, but I
would prefer not to do this as it is a production box and I don't have the
skills to fix it if I break it.

Any sugestions?

Jim Morcombe


----- Original Message -----
From: Bertin, Philippe <philippe.bertin@barco.com>
To: Jim Morcombe <jim@byronics.com.au>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Help required with installing postgreSQL on SCO
Openserver


> Jim,
>
> You may want to try a "make cleandist" too. Although that will force you
to
> do a new "./configure", you will be *really* sure that not any
dependencies
> are floating around. In some rare situations, a "make clean" may not be
> enough.
>
> It's not that very likely that the "make cleandist" will solve your
problem,
> but you may want to try it, if you get more desperate :(
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philippe
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Morcombe [SMTP:jim@byronics.com.au]
> > Sent: vrijdag 14 juni 2002 3:49
> > To: Bertin, Philippe
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Help required with installing postgreSQL on
> > SCO Openserver
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > Actually I wasn't aware of the "make clean" command - this is another
> > useful
> > thing I have learnt.
> >
> > However, it doesn't solve my problem.  Someone else suggested I download
> > version 7.2, so I'll try that today.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Bertin, Philippe <philippe.bertin@barco.com>
> > To: Jim Morcombe <jim@byronics.com.au>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:48 PM
> > Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Help required with installing postgreSQL on SCO
> > Openserver
> >
> >
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > > Did you eventually do a "./configure", then a "make", then another
> > > "./configure", and re-did a "make" *without* having performed a "make
> > clean"
> > > ? I suspect this because the compiler doesn't find a symbol it's
> > supposed
> > to
> > > find ...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Philippe Bertin.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jim Morcombe [SMTP:jim@byronics.com.au]
> > > > Sent: donderdag 13 juni 2002 8:25
> > > > To: pgsql General
> > > > Subject: [GENERAL] Help required with installing postgreSQL on SCO
> > > > Openserver
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Jim Morcombe <mailto:jim@byronics.com.au>
> > > > To: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
> > > > <mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:42 AM
> > > > Subject: Help required with installing postgreSQL on SCO Openserver
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can you help me with this problem?
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to install PostgreSQL on my SCO OpenServer box but am
> > having
> > > > problems.
> > > >
> > > > here is the output from the configure script and from the gmake
> > command
> > > >
> > > > I have included the gmake output and the errors separately as well
as
> > > > combined, in case that makes it easier to see my error.
> > > >
> > > > Jim Morcombe.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   << File: configure_output.dat >>  << File: gmake.dat >>  << File:
> > > > gmake_errors.dat >>  << File: gmake_output.dat >>  << File:
> > ATT15873.txt
> > > > >>