Thread: initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2

I've had PostgreSQL 7.1.3 running (Mac OS X) for a while.  I recently upgraded to MAC OS X 10.2 (and it appeared that
my7.1.3 install of PostgreSQL no longer works).  So I've been trying to upgrade to 7.3.  The installation package ran
fine. However, when I ran the initdb command, it failed.  The only thing I did in preparation for installing 7.3 was to
wipethe contents of /usr/local/pgsql/data.  This is the error when I run the following command: 

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[Craig-Lawtons-Computer:/usr/local/pgsql] postgres% /usr/local/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

Fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... dyld: /usr/local/bin/postgres Undefined symbols:
/usr/local/bin/postgres undefined reference to _crypt expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib
/usr/local/bin/initdb: line 582:  2642 Trace/BPT trap          "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x1 $PGSQL_OPT
$BACKEND_TALK_ARGtemplate1 

initdb failed.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Craig Lawton

lawtoc@earthlink.net writes:
> So I've been trying to upgrade to 7.3.
> The installation package ran fine.  However, when I ran the initdb
> command, it failed.

It looks like the package you are using expects libcrypto version 0.9,
and you have either no libcrypto or a different version installed.

If you cannot get hold of the expected version of libcrypto, recompiling
PG from source is the best bet.

            regards, tom lane