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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