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Invalid Current Euid 500

From
"Tom Rons"
Date:
Hello,

I installed PostgreSQL version 7.1.2 through the cygwin setup, however it
won't start.  Here's what it spits out:

$ initdb
The program
    '/usr/bin/postgres'
needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1.2, or
there may be a configuration problem.

This was the error message issued by that program:
/usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 500

Any ideas on how I can fix this?  I'm not planning on running an SQL server
on a win32 OS, I just need to test a program (which requires PostgreSQL),
and I had some trouble finding someone who could host a testdb :)

Thanks

RE: Invalid Current Euid 500

From
"Henshall, Stuart - WCP"
Date:
Are you running it as the same user who setup cygwin? It looks like your
user id code isn't recognised for some reason (I think). Maybe try as a
different user?
- Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Tom Rons [SMTP:tom.rons@pandora.be]
> Sent:    Friday, June 15, 2001 11:51 AM
> To:    pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject:    [CYGWIN] Invalid Current Euid 500
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed PostgreSQL version 7.1.2 through the cygwin setup, however it
> won't start.  Here's what it spits out:
>
> $ initdb
> The program
>     '/usr/bin/postgres'
> needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1.2, or
> there may be a configuration problem.
>
> This was the error message issued by that program:
> /usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 500
>
> Any ideas on how I can fix this?  I'm not planning on running an SQL
> server
> on a win32 OS, I just need to test a program (which requires PostgreSQL),
> and I had some trouble finding someone who could host a testdb :)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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Re: Invalid Current Euid 500

From
"Tom Rons"
Date:
Ah that was the problem.  I recently had a hard drive crash and had to
reinstall everything .. oddly though I didn't have any user accounts
(WinME).  I added a new user account and everything works now. Thanks for
your help.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk>
To: "'Tom Rons'" <tom.rons@pandora.be>; <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] Invalid Current Euid 500


> Are you running it as the same user who setup cygwin? It looks like your
> user id code isn't recognised for some reason (I think). Maybe try as a
> different user?
> - Stuart
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Rons [SMTP:tom.rons@pandora.be]
> > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:51 AM
> > To: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [CYGWIN] Invalid Current Euid 500
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed PostgreSQL version 7.1.2 through the cygwin setup, however
it
> > won't start.  Here's what it spits out:
> >
> > $ initdb
> > The program
> >     '/usr/bin/postgres'
> > needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1.2, or
> > there may be a configuration problem.
> >
> > This was the error message issued by that program:
> > /usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 500
> >
> > Any ideas on how I can fix this?  I'm not planning on running an SQL
> > server
> > on a win32 OS, I just need to test a program (which requires
PostgreSQL),
> > and I had some trouble finding someone who could host a testdb :)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>