Thread: Error starting backend
I had a hard drive die on me. In rebuilding my system, I found out that my
backup process wasn't working correctly, so I don't have any dumps that I can
just load into the new setup. I was able, however, to save the data directory
from the old drive. If I try to start the backend up with that data dir,
though, I get this error:
PANIC: The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8',
which is not recognized by setlocale().
It looks like you need to initdb.
Any idea how I can get around that? Thanks a lot!
jason
Any thoughts on this? I'm at a loss on what to try next. I appreciate any help anyone can give. :P Thanks a lot! jason wrote: > I had a hard drive die on me. In rebuilding my system, I found out that my > backup process wasn't working correctly, so I don't have any dumps that I can > just load into the new setup. I was able, however, to save the data directory > from the old drive. If I try to start the backend up with that data dir, > though, I get this error: > > PANIC: The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8', > which is not recognized by setlocale(). > It looks like you need to initdb. > > Any idea how I can get around that? Thanks a lot! > > jason > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > > -- jason lee His grace for my shame / His death for my blame / His stripes for my pain And the pieces fit / His joy for my grief / His hurt my relief My doubt His belief / And the pieces fit -- Considering Lily
Hmm... I'm thinking you either have a version mismatch or perhaps there's an issue with your recovery process. can you initidb a new location with the proper local settings, then copy over the data dir to that new location? If that doesn't work, post the steps you took to restore. Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:48, Jason Lee wrote: > Any thoughts on this? I'm at a loss on what to try next. I appreciate any help > anyone can give. :P > > Thanks a lot! > > jason wrote: > > > I had a hard drive die on me. In rebuilding my system, I found out that my > > backup process wasn't working correctly, so I don't have any dumps that I can > > just load into the new setup. I was able, however, to save the data directory > > from the old drive. If I try to start the backend up with that data dir, > > though, I get this error: > > > > PANIC: The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8', > > which is not recognized by setlocale(). > > It looks like you need to initdb. > > > > Any idea how I can get around that? Thanks a lot! > > > > jason > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html > > > > > > > -- > jason lee > His grace for my shame / His death for my blame / His stripes for my pain > And the pieces fit / His joy for my grief / His hurt my relief > My doubt His belief / And the pieces fit -- Considering Lily > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)
Jason Lee <jason@theleehouse.net> writes:
> Any thoughts on this?
>> PANIC: The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8',
>> which is not recognized by setlocale().
Looks to me like you are missing a locale file. Maybe you omitted
installing some locale packages on your new system?
regards, tom lane
Robert Treat wrote: > Hmm... I'm thinking you either have a version mismatch or perhaps > there's an issue with your recovery process. can you initidb a new > location with the proper local settings, then copy over the data dir to > that new location? If that doesn't work, post the steps you took to > restore. You might have been right about the version problem. I built an older version (7.3) and started the server with that data dir and it worked fine. Since there shouldn't be the need to dump and restore with any 7.3.x version, I'm not sure that was the deal. The data base came off a Red Hat 9 box, and I was trying to restore to a Gentoo box. Once I copied the data dir to a Red Hat 9 box (and installed 7.3) everything worked. <shrug> Thank you Robert and Tom for taking time to help me. :) -- jason lee His grace for my shame / His death for my blame / His stripes for my pain And the pieces fit / His joy for my grief / His hurt my relief My doubt His belief / And the pieces fit -- Considering Lily