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cannot find name for user ID

From
Chida Hisao
Date:
Hello,

I have newly installed cygwin on Win200 PC, but the it always start
with:

"id: cannot find name for user ID 36987"

and I fail to initialize PostgresSQL with this message:

"The program
    '/usr/bin/postgres'
needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.3.4 or
there may be a configuration problem.

This was the error message issued by that program:
/usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 36987"

I have uninstalled and reinstalled cygwin but the problem remains
unsolved.

Please advice m(__)m

Thank you in advace.

Hisao
chida.A28990@canon.co.jp

Re: cannot find name for user ID

From
Reini Urban
Date:
Chida Hisao schrieb:
> I have newly installed cygwin on Win200 PC, but the it always start
> with:
>
> "id: cannot find name for user ID 36987"

man mkpasswd

> and I fail to initialize PostgresSQL with this message:
>
> "The program
>     '/usr/bin/postgres'
> needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.3.4 or
> there may be a configuration problem.
>
> This was the error message issued by that program:
> /usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 36987"
>
> I have uninstalled and reinstalled cygwin but the problem remains
> unsolved.
>
> Please advice m(__)m

how about reading the cygwin readme?

less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgres*.README

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