Re: Problems with initdb on Cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-general

OK, sorry for the incovenience.

The base OS is Windows NT4.0 + SP6a.
Cygwin is 2.125.2.10
Postgres is 7.1.3-1

Thanks in advance





Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> on 24/01/2002 15.31.59

To:   Javier Vilarroig <Javier.Vilarroig@marconi.com>
cc:   pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Subject:  Re: [GENERAL] Problems with initdb on Cygwin


Hi Javier,

Just because you don't mention it :

- Which OS version of Windows, and which service pack applied?
- Which version of cygwin, and therefore which version of PostgreSQL?

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Javier Vilarroig wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
>      I'm not sure if this is the good place to talk about Postgresql on
> Cygwin, but...
>
>      I'm triying to run Prostgresql on Cygwin, only for development
> purposes. I installed Postgresql on my brand new Cygwin installation.
>
>      When I try to run initdb it gets hanged, after 4 hours it didn't
> ended.
>
>      Here is the initdb output:
> ----------------------------------------------
>  $ initdb -D /usr/local/pg_data
> This database system will be initialized with username "vilarroig".
> This user will own all the data files and must also own the server proce
>
> Fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pg_data
> Creating directory /usr/local/pg_data/base
> Creating directory /usr/local/pg_data/global
> Creating directory /usr/local/pg_data/pg_xlog
> Creating template1 database in /usr/local/pg_data/base/1
> Signal 11
> Caught signal.
>
> initdb failed.
> Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.266.
> ------------------------------------------
>
> The signal was sent by me using kill.
>
> Looking at the program manager I can see postgres.exe takin al the CPU
> time.
>
> Please can you help me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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