Thread: New Fedora 3 install gives: relation "pg_catalog.pg_user" does not exist
I'm trying to install PG 7.4.6 (from Fedora rpms) and keep getting stuck with psql refusing to do anything useful. As a simple example: ----------------------------------- bash-3.00$ createdb postgres CREATE DATABASE bash-3.00$ psql Welcome to psql 7.4.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help on internal slash commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit postgres=# \l ERROR: relation "pg_catalog.pg_user" does not exist ----------------------------------- The only reference I could find on this error all dealt with copying a database, and suggested using REINDEX. However, the instructions in REINDEX say that I have to start a standalone server with the -P option. This option isn't documented (in the postgres man page) and I cannot get pg_ctl to startup a server with this option - it returns w/o error and no server is running. I don't see any errors when starting with "service postgresql start" - and if I empty out /var/lib/pgsql, the command initializes the database with no errors. Can someone give me some pointers on what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to fix it? Thanks! Steve -- Steve Wampler -- swampler@noao.edu The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud.
Steve Wampler wrote: > I don't see any errors when starting with > "service postgresql start" - and if I empty out > /var/lib/pgsql, the command initializes the database > with no errors. To add a bit more information, and correct the above. I wasn't seeing any errors because PGLOG was set to /dev/null in /etc/init.d/postgresql. Changing that to /var/lib/pgsql, clearing out /var/lib/pgsql, and restarting gives: -------------------------------------------------- bash-3.00$ cat /var/log/pgsql The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US. fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/pgsql/data... ok creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/base... ok creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/global... ok creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok selecting default max_connections... 100 selecting default shared_buffers... 1000 creating configuration files... ok creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/1... ok initializing pg_shadow... ok enabling unlimited row size for system tables... ok initializing pg_depend... ok creating system views... ok loading pg_description... ok creating conversions... ok setting privileges on built-in objects... ok creating information schema... initdb: failed bash-3.00$ --------------------------------------------------- So, initdb isn't completing. Which explains the error, but doesn't give me enough to figure out a fix. Ideas? Thanks! Steve -- Steve Wampler -- swampler@noao.edu The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud.
Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu> writes: > I'm trying to install PG 7.4.6 (from Fedora rpms) and > keep getting stuck with psql refusing to do anything > useful. Are you running with SELinux enforcement mode on? We've just isolated some problems there --- see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143208 The quickest workaround is to "sudo /usr/sbin/setenforce 0", at least for long enough to run initdb. regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote: > Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu> writes: > >>I'm trying to install PG 7.4.6 (from Fedora rpms) and >>keep getting stuck with psql refusing to do anything >>useful. > > > Are you running with SELinux enforcement mode on? We've just isolated > some problems there --- see > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143208 > > The quickest workaround is to "sudo /usr/sbin/setenforce 0", at least for > long enough to run initdb. Thanks, Tom - that was it! -- Steve Wampler -- swampler@noao.edu The gods that smiled on your birth are now laughing out loud.