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PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)

From
koester@x-itec.de
Date:
Hi there,

I have downloaded release 8.x for installation. Compilation and so on
works fine (FreeBSD 5.2.1)

initdb fails with the following informations:

copying template1 to template0 ... cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/16384: Invalid argument
cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17175: Invalid argument
cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17180: Invalid argument
cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17183: Invalid argument
cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17185: Invalid argument
...
FATAL:  could not initialize database directory
DETAIL:  Failing system command was: cp -r '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1' '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/17229'
HINT:  Look in the postmaster's stderr log for more information.
child process exited with exit code 1
initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

Anything I can do?


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Best regards

Bo

Re: PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)

From
Tom Lane
Date:
koester@x-itec.de writes:
> I have downloaded release 8.x for installation. Compilation and so on
> works fine (FreeBSD 5.2.1)

> initdb fails with the following informations:

> copying template1 to template0 ... cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/16384: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17175: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17180: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17183: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17185: Invalid argument
> ...
> FATAL:  could not initialize database directory
> DETAIL:  Failing system command was: cp -r '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1' '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/17229'
> HINT:  Look in the postmaster's stderr log for more information.
> child process exited with exit code 1
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

> Anything I can do?

Complain to some FreeBSD hackers?  This seems like it must be a kernel
bug (or perhaps a bug in cp itself).  I don't think Postgres did
anything wrong.

            regards, tom lane

Re: PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)

From
koester@x-itec.de
Date:
Hello Tom,

thanks four your answer.


>> Anything I can do?

> Complain to some FreeBSD hackers?  This seems like it must be a kernel
> bug (or perhaps a bug in cp itself).  I don't think Postgres did
> anything wrong.

IŽll update the machine to the lastest version, Infos follows.


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 Bo                            mailto:koester@x-itec.de

Re: PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)

From
koester@x-itec.de
Date:
Hello Tom,

Monday, February 21, 2005, 4:27:42 PM, you wrote:

>> initdb fails with the following informations:

>> copying template1 to template0 ... cp:
>> /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/16384: Invalid argument
..
>> FATAL:  could not initialize database directory
>> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"
..

> Complain to some FreeBSD hackers?  This seems like it must be a kernel
> bug (or perhaps a bug in cp itself).  I don't think Postgres did
> anything wrong.

That was ist. There was a bug in the 5.2.1-r11 version, recompiling
and updating the userland to 5.3 fixed the problem.

Thanks a lot!


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Bo
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