Thread: initdb fails after installation on Mac OS X 10.2.6

Hello,

i installed postgre 7.3.3. I used the Installation Instruction of
postgre.org. The installation ran fine. However, when I ran the initdb
command, it failed. The latest Apple Security Updates are installed. I
changed the prefix to a local user account, because i have no admin
rights.

This is the error when I run the following command:

./configure --with-includes=/sw/include/ --with-libraries=/sw/lib
--prefix=/private/Network/Servers/macbruegge7/Volumes/raid/Users/
atabey/Applications/pgsql
make
make install
"go to Folder pgsql"

[macbruegge65:~/Applications/pgsql] atabey% bin/initdb -D data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"atabey".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.
This locale setting will prevent the use of indexes for pattern matching
operations.  If that is a concern, rerun initdb with the collation order
set to "C".  For more information see the Administrator's Guide.

Fixing permissions on existing directory data... ok
creating directory data/base... ok
creating directory data/global... ok
creating directory data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory data/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in data/base/1... bin/initdb: line 582:
7349 Abort trap              "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x1 $PGSQL_OPT
$BACKEND_TALK_ARG template1

initdb failed.
.
.
.
Any help wold be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Fuat Atabey

Fuat Atabey <atabey@in.tum.de> writes:
> [macbruegge65:~/Applications/pgsql] atabey% bin/initdb -D data
> ...
> creating template1 database in data/base/1... bin/initdb: line 582:
> 7349 Abort trap              "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x1 $PGSQL_OPT
> $BACKEND_TALK_ARG template1

> initdb failed.

Hmm ... the "abort" bit is odd, seeing that you didn't configure with
--enable-cassert.  Is there a core file?  If so, can you get a stack
trace from it?

Also, does it work any better if you specify an absolute rather than
relative path in -D ?

            regards, tom lane