Thread: INIT DB FAILURE
I'll just quickly run down what I did and hopefully someone can help me out. cd /usr/src/postgresql-7.0.3/src ./configure --prefix=/usr/pgsql make make install mkdir /usr/pgsql/data chown postgres /usr/pqsql/data su - postgres initdb -D /usr/pgsql/data // I have placed initdb in the path, as well as already created the user postgres. There are NO existing versions of postgreSQL on this machine and this is the first time I am installing it. The error I get is as follows: --- [postgres@ pgsql]$ initdb -D /usr/pgsql/data This database system will be initialized with username "postgres". This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process. Fixing permissions on pre-existing data directory /usr/pgsql/data Creating database system directory /usr/pgsql/data/base Creating database XLOG directory /usr/pgsql/data/pg_xlog Creating template database in /usr/pgsql/data/base/template1 ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'. ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'. Creating global relations in /usr/pgsql/data/base ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'. ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'. Adding template1 database to pg_database /usr/pgsql/bin/initdb: line 481: 20412 Segmentation fault "$PGPATH"/postgres $BACKENDARGS template1 <"$TEMPFILE" initdb failed. Removing /usr/pgsql/data. Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.20382. --- There has to be some sort of logical explaination for this. I am running Linux-2.2.x Any help would be appreciated. -- Mike _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
"Mike Miller" <temp6453@hotmail.com> writes:
> Fixing permissions on pre-existing data directory /usr/pgsql/data
> Creating database system directory /usr/pgsql/data/base
> Creating database XLOG directory /usr/pgsql/data/pg_xlog
> Creating template database in /usr/pgsql/data/base/template1
> ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'.
> ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'.
> Creating global relations in /usr/pgsql/data/base
Now that I look, there is a similar report in the pgsql-bugs archives
from last August, but no information about any resolution.
Please try the initdb with --debug added, and send me the resulting
output (it'll probably be kinda bulky, so don't send to the list).
regards, tom lane
mv global.bki global.bki.old; mv template1.bki template1.bki.old cat global.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki cat template1.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki Solution is pretty simple actually (did figure this one out). I did find other people complaining about this, but no solutions. But I just did the install on an older slackware system and diffed the bki files to find some as 'ame' and others as 'name' - so I used the lines above and managed to get it to work just fine. Quite odd really... I am using the latest stable versions of all of the GNU tools straight from their site. Problem appears to be solved though, but maybe a check in the Makefile is in order. It seems (through my google search, as well as a search of this archive) that I am not the only one with this problem. Cheers; -- Mike >From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> >To: "Mike Miller" <temp6453@hotmail.com> >CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org >Subject: Re: INIT DB FAILURE >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:18:04 -0500 > >"Mike Miller" <temp6453@hotmail.com> writes: > > Fixing permissions on pre-existing data directory /usr/pgsql/data > > Creating database system directory /usr/pgsql/data/base > > Creating database XLOG directory /usr/pgsql/data/pg_xlog > > Creating template database in /usr/pgsql/data/base/template1 > > ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'. > > > ERROR: Error: unknown type 'ame'. > > > Creating global relations in /usr/pgsql/data/base > >Now that I look, there is a similar report in the pgsql-bugs archives >from last August, but no information about any resolution. > >Please try the initdb with --debug added, and send me the resulting >output (it'll probably be kinda bulky, so don't send to the list). > > regards, tom lane _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
"Mike Miller" <temp6453@hotmail.com> writes:
> mv global.bki global.bki.old; mv template1.bki template1.bki.old
> cat global.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki
> cat template1.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki
> Solution is pretty simple actually (did figure this one out). I did find
> other people complaining about this, but no solutions. But I just did the
> install on an older slackware system and diffed the bki files to find some
> as 'ame' and others as 'name' - so I used the lines above and managed to get
> it to work just fine.
OK, so the breakage is not in the bootstrap parser but in the generation
of the .bki files. This is done by the shell script
src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh, and in looking it over, I notice with
suspicion the step
sed -e "s/;[ ]*$//g" \
-e "s/^[ ]*//" \
-e "s/[ ]Oid/\ oid/g" \
-e "s/[ ]NameData/\ name/g" \
-e "s/^Oid/oid/g" \
-e "s/^NameData/\name/g" \
-e "s/(NameData/(name/g" \
-e "s/(Oid/(oid/g" \
-e "s/NAMEDATALEN/$NAMEDATALEN/g" \
-e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS\*2/$INDEXMAXKEYS2/g" \
-e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS\*4/$INDEXMAXKEYS4/g" \
-e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS/$INDEXMAXKEYS/g" \
-e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS\*2/$INDEXMAXKEYS2/g" \
-e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS\*4/$INDEXMAXKEYS4/g" \
-e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS/$INDEXMAXKEYS/g" \
| $AWK '
In particular that "\name" looks pretty bogus. Would you try removing
that backslash and see if the script works then? I'll betcha that some
versions of sed convert the \n to a newline ...
BTW, what version of sed do you have, exactly?
regards, tom lane
GNU sed version 3.02.80 >From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> >To: "Mike Miller" <temp6453@hotmail.com> >CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org >Subject: Re: Re: INIT DB FAILURE >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:21:31 -0500 > >"Mike Miller" <temp6453@hotmail.com> writes: > > mv global.bki global.bki.old; mv template1.bki template1.bki.old > > cat global.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki > > cat template1.bki.old | sed s/" ame"/" name"/ > global.bki > > > Solution is pretty simple actually (did figure this one out). I did >find > > other people complaining about this, but no solutions. But I just did >the > > install on an older slackware system and diffed the bki files to find >some > > as 'ame' and others as 'name' - so I used the lines above and managed to >get > > it to work just fine. > >OK, so the breakage is not in the bootstrap parser but in the generation >of the .bki files. This is done by the shell script >src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh, and in looking it over, I notice with >suspicion the step > >sed -e "s/;[ ]*$//g" \ > -e "s/^[ ]*//" \ > -e "s/[ ]Oid/\ oid/g" \ > -e "s/[ ]NameData/\ name/g" \ > -e "s/^Oid/oid/g" \ > -e "s/^NameData/\name/g" \ > -e "s/(NameData/(name/g" \ > -e "s/(Oid/(oid/g" \ > -e "s/NAMEDATALEN/$NAMEDATALEN/g" \ > -e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS\*2/$INDEXMAXKEYS2/g" \ > -e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS\*4/$INDEXMAXKEYS4/g" \ > -e "s/INDEX_MAX_KEYS/$INDEXMAXKEYS/g" \ > -e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS\*2/$INDEXMAXKEYS2/g" \ > -e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS\*4/$INDEXMAXKEYS4/g" \ > -e "s/FUNC_MAX_ARGS/$INDEXMAXKEYS/g" \ >| $AWK ' > >In particular that "\name" looks pretty bogus. Would you try removing >that backslash and see if the script works then? I'll betcha that some >versions of sed convert the \n to a newline ... > >BTW, what version of sed do you have, exactly? > > regards, tom lane _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.