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Cannot initdb - Windows 98 SE

From
Keith Gray
Date:
When I tried to initdb with -D /usr/share/postgres/data
and after setting env variable PGDATA, I get the following response.

.... and wait for a LONG while... no response.

Am I missing something obvious?

$ initdb
This database system will be initialized with username "keith".
This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process.

Creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data
Creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/base
Creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/global
Creating directory /usr/share/postgres/data/pg_xlog
Creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgres/data/base/1

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Keith Gray

Technical Development Manager
Heart Consulting Services P/L
mailto:keith@heart.com.au

Re: Cannot initdb - Windows 98 SE

From
Dave Page
Date:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Gray [mailto:keith@heart.com.au]
> Sent: 03 October 2001 07:27
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: [CYGWIN] Cannot initdb - Windows 98 SE
>
>
> When I tried to initdb with -D /usr/share/postgres/data
> and after setting env variable PGDATA, I get the following response.
>
> .... and wait for a LONG while... no response.
>
> Am I missing something obvious?

Make sure the cygwin IPC daemon is running.

Regards, Dave.

Re: Cannot initdb - Windows 98 SE

From
Dave Page
Date:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Gray [mailto:keith@heart.com.au]
> Sent: 03 October 2001 09:30
> To: Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Cannot initdb - Windows 98 SE
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> > Make sure the cygwin IPC daemon is running.
> >
>
> How??

From a bash session on my W2K box:

PC20 $ ipc-daemon &
[1] 568
PC20 $ ps
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     1564       1    1564       1564    0  500 13:56:56 /usr/bin/bash
      568    1564     568       1608    0  500 13:57:50
/usr/local/bin/ipc-daemon
     1436    1564    1436        868    0  500 13:57:52 /usr/bin/ps

The second process shown by the ps is the ipc-daemon running correctly. Note
that it doesn't ship by default with either Cygwin or PostgreSQL, so you may
need to download it from
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/index.html.
See /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.1.3.README for more details.

Regards, Dave.