The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5140
Logged by: Marcus Lundblad
Email address: marcus.lundblad@mogul.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.8
Operating system: Solaris 10
Description: initdb crashes
Details:
Hi
I compiled version 8.3.8 of postgres on a Solaris 10 machine.
When running initdb it crashes like this:
postgres@webbkartbas02> /usr/local/postgres/bin/initdb -D
/usr/local/postgres/data/ -d
Running in debug mode.
VERSION=8.3.8
PGDATA=/usr/local/postgres/data
share_path=/usr/local/postgres/share
PGPATH=/usr/local/postgres/bin
POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres
POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/local/postgres/share/postgres.bki
POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/local/postgres/share/postgres.description
POSTGRES_SHDESCR=/usr/local/postgres/share/postgres.shdescription
POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/local/postgres/share/postgresql.conf.sample
PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/local/postgres/share/pg_hba.conf.sample
PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/local/postgres/share/pg_ident.conf.sample
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to SQL_ASCII.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/postgres/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 32MB/204800
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/postgres/data/base/1 ... DEBUG:
invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=38264832)
DEBUG: creating and filling new WAL file
DEBUG: done creating and filling new WAL file
LOG: database system was shut down at 2009-10-27 15:26:27 CET
LOG: incorrect resource manager data checksum in record at 0/20
LOG: invalid primary checkpoint record
LOG: invalid secondary checkpoint link in control file
PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record
Abort - core dumped
child process exited with exit code 134
initdb: removing contents of data directory "/usr/local/postgres/data"
The following params to ./configure was passed when compiling postgres:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/postgres/ --with-pam
--with-libedit-preferred --with-libxml --with-libxslt --with-gssapi
--enable-thread-safety
--enable-dtrace--with-includes=/usr/local/include:/usr/include:/usr/gcc/incl
ude:/usr/sfw/include/ --with-libs=/usr/local/lib:/usr/gcc/lib:/usr/lib
--with-libraries=/usr/local/lib:/usr/gcc/lib:/usr/lib
the version of gcc is:
sparc-sun-solaris2.10-gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (20090222) (gccfss)
