Re: initializing the DB cluster - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: initializing the DB cluster
Date
Msg-id 19601.1179927506@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to initializing the DB cluster  ("Islam Hegazy" <islheg@hotmail.com>)
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"Islam Hegazy" <islheg@hotmail.com> writes:
>       I installed the source of PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on a linux machine. The =
> installation process ended successfully but when I try to create the =
> database cluster using the initdb command I get the following error:
>       "
>       creating conversions ... sh: line 1:  1838 Segmentation fault      =
> (core dumped) "/home/grads/imehegaz/MyPostgreSQL/bin/postgres" --single =
> -F -O -c search_path=3Dpg_catalog -c exit_on_error=3Dtrue template1 =
>> /dev/null
>       child process exited with exit code 139

A segfault at the "creating conversions" step suggests a problem with
compatibility of shared libraries (because that's the first step that
tries to pull in any dynamically-loaded modules).  Probably it's
finding .so's that are for some other Postgres version.  Check rpath
etc.

            regards, tom lane

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