My guess is that you don't have the ipc-daemon running before you run
initdb.
--Barry
Steve SAUTETNER wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I've got a little problem with launching initdb on postgresql 7.1.2 under
> cygwin :
>
> when i launch it, it says :
>
> $ initdb -d -n -D $PG_DATA
> Running with debug mode on.
> Running with noclean mode on. Mistakes will not be cleaned up.
>
> Initdb variables:
> PGDATA=/data/pgsql
> datadir=/usr/share/postgresql
> PGPATH=/usr/bin
> TEMPFILE=/tmp/initdb.412
> MULTIBYTE=SQL_ASCII
> MULTIBYTEID=0
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=ssautetn
> POSTGRES_SUPERUSERID=1003
> TEMPLATE1_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/template1.bki
> GLOBAL_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/global.bki
> TEMPLATE1_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/template1.description
> GLOBAL_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/global.description
> POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
> PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample
> PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.sample
> This database system will be initialized with username "ssautetn".
> This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process.
>
> Creating directory /data/pgsql
> Creating directory /data/pgsql/base
> Creating directory /data/pgsql/global
> Creating directory /data/pgsql/pg_xlog
> Creating template1 database in /data/pgsql/base/1
> Running: /usr/bin/postgres -boot -x1 -C -F -D/data/pgsql -d template1
>
> and then the postgres process freezes and take 100 % of cpu, never creating
> the template1 files, so i must kill it.
>
> As anyone an idea on what's happening ?
> thank's.
>
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