initdb failure - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

Hi!

I received the following error after attempting to initialize the database
within Cygwin.

selecting default shared_buffers... Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
50
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /user/local/pgsql/data/ba

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/user/local/pgsql/data"

Any help is appreciated.  Here is my configuration dump:

$ cygcheck -s

Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Aug 06 10:48:18 2004

Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600

Path:   C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
        C:\cygwin\bin
        C:\cygwin\bin
        C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
        c:\WINDOWS\system32
        c:\WINDOWS
        c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
        c:\Program Files\PuTTY
        c:\java\apache-ant-1.6.1\bin
        c:\java\j2sdk1.4.2_04
        .\

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 1006(John) GID: 513(None)
513(None)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 1006(John) GID: 513(None)
0(root)              513(None)
544(Administrators)  545(Users)

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\John'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/home/John'
USER = `John'

Use `-r' to scan registry

c:  hd  NTFS   28576Mb  28% CP CS UN PA FC
d:  hd  FAT       62Mb  67% CP    UN           FLASH DISK
e:  cd           N/A    N/A

C:\cygwin      /          system  binmode
C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode
.              /cygdrive  system  binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Not Found: gcc
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Not Found: ld
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Not Found: make
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe

   61k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll
    7k 2003/10/19 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
  841k 2004/03/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll
   45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll
   35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll
   48k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform7.dll
   28k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-3.dll
   30k 2003/08/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-4.dll
   19k 2003/03/22 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm.dll
   15k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-3.dll
   15k 2003/08/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm_compat-4.dll
  107k 2004/07/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggettextlib-0-14-1.dll
   17k 2004/07/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggettextpo-0.dll
  190k 2004/07/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggettextsrc-0-14-1.dll
   17k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory4.dll
   29k 2003/08/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cyghistory5.dll
  991k 2004/07/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
   22k 2001/12/13 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-1.dll
   37k 2003/08/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll
   54k 2004/07/06 C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-3.dll
   26k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu5.dll
   20k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu6.dll
   29k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygmenu7.dll
  156k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
  175k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
  226k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses5.dll
  202k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses6.dll
  224k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses7.dll
   15k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel5.dll
   12k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel6.dll
   19k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpanel7.dll
   62k 2003/12/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre-0.dll
   63k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcre.dll
    9k 2003/12/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix-0.dll
   61k 2003/04/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
  108k 2001/06/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline4.dll
  148k 2003/08/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygreadline5.dll
  171k 2004/03/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.7.dll
   61k 2003/12/04 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll
 1126k 2004/05/26 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.5.10
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 116
        Shared data: 4
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Tue May 25 22:07:00 EDT 2004
        CVS tag: cr-0x5e6
        Shared id: cygwin1S4


Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
_update-info-dir     00227-1
ash                  20040127-1
base-files           2.6-1
base-passwd          1.1-1
bash                 2.05b-16
bzip2                1.0.2-5
crypt                1.1-1
cygrunsrv            1.0-1
cygwin               1.5.10-3
diffutils            2.8.7-1
editrights           1.01-1
fileutils            4.1-2
findutils            4.1.7-4
gawk                 3.1.4-3
gdbm                 1.8.3-7
grep                 2.5-1
groff                1.18.1-2
gzip                 1.3.5-1
less                 381-1
libbz2_1             1.0.2-5
libgdbm              1.8.0-5
libgdbm-devel        1.8.3-7
libgdbm3             1.8.3-3
libgdbm4             1.8.3-7
libgettextpo0        0.14.1-1
libiconv2            1.9.2-1
libintl1             0.10.40-1
libintl2             0.12.1-3
libintl3             0.14.1-1
libncurses5          5.2-1
libncurses6          5.2-8
libncurses7          5.3-4
libpcre              4.1-1
libpcre0             4.5-1
libreadline4         4.1-2
libreadline5         4.3-5
login                1.9-7
man                  1.5k-3
mktemp               1.5-3
ncurses              5.3-4
openssl              0.9.7d-1
postgresql           7.4.3-1
readline             4.3-5
sed                  4.0.9-2
sh-utils             2.0.15-4
tar                  1.13.25-5
termcap              20021106-2
terminfo             5.3_20030726-1
texinfo              4.2-4
textutils            2.0.21-1
which                1.5-2
zlib                 1.2.1-1
Use -h to see help about each section

Thanks!

John Wilcher