Re: initdb: The password file was not generated. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Erik Rijkers
Subject Re: initdb: The password file was not generated.
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Msg-id 5878244ea4b171ee4a701efd7a4332c9.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl
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In response to initdb: The password file was not generated.  ("Erik Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl>)
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I suppose the initdb invocation is needed as well:

/home/super/pg_stuff/pg_installations/pgsql.cvs_vanilla/bin/initdb -U super -D
/home/super/pg_stuff/pg_installations/pgsql.cvs_vanilla/data -E UTF8
--pwfile=/home/super/pg_stuff/.84devel

( that .84devel file does exist )


On Thu, September 3, 2009 01:57, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> While test building from CVS head on fedora 10 (also on fedora 6), I get:
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> ./configure --prefix=/home/super/pg_stuff/pg_installations/pgsql.cvs_vanilla --with-pgport=6542
> --quiet --enable-depend --with-openssl --with-perl --with-libxml --with-libxslt
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> gcc (GCC) 4.3.2
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> compile OK, tests OK, install OK, without errors, then initdb:
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> initializing pg_authid ... ok
> setting password ... ok
> initdb: The password file was not generated. Please report this problem.
> initdb: removing data directory "/home/super/pg_stuff/pg_installations/pgsql.cvs_vanilla/data"
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> hth,
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> Erik Rijkers
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