Just finished building and installing on *Sun* (also
"--without-readline", not that I think that could be the issue): Works
fine. So it's something to do with the SGI build in particular.
David Rysdam wrote:
> I have a working 8.1 server running on Linux and I can connect to it
> from other Linux clients. I built postgresql 8.1 on an SGI (using
> --without-readline but otherwise stock) and it compiled OK and
> installed fine. But when I try to connect to the Linux server I get
> "could not send startup packet: transport endpoint is not connected"
> on the client end and "incomplete startup packet" on the server end.
> Connectivity between the two machines is working.
>
> I could find basically no useful references to the former and the only
> references to the latter were portscans and the like.
>
> Browsing the source, I see a couple places that message could come
> from. One relates to SSL, which the output from configure says is
> turned off on both client and server. The other is just a generic
> comm error--but would could cause a partial failure like that?
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