Re: initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2.6 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2.6
Date
Msg-id 19975.1058676721@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2.6  (Fuat Atabey <atabey@in.tum.de>)
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Fuat Atabey <atabey@in.tum.de> writes:
> [macbruegge65:~/Applications/pgsql] atabey% bin/initdb -D data
> ...
> creating template1 database in data/base/1... bin/initdb: line 582:
> 7349 Abort trap              "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x1 $PGSQL_OPT
> $BACKEND_TALK_ARG template1

> initdb failed.

Hmm ... the "abort" bit is odd, seeing that you didn't configure with
--enable-cassert.  Is there a core file?  If so, can you get a stack
trace from it?

Also, does it work any better if you specify an absolute rather than
relative path in -D ?

            regards, tom lane

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