Thread: Installation Errors

Dear sir,

   i am encounting  the following problem while
initializing data cluster(i am using Mac os x 10.2).

   Plez tell me solution for this

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bash-2.05a$ initdb -D /usr/local/PostgreSQL/data
The files belonging to this database system will be
owned by user "ampleuser".
This user must also own the server process.

creating directory /usr/local/PostgreSQL/data... ok
creating directory /usr/local/PostgreSQL/data/base...
ok
creating directory
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/data/global... ok
creating directory
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/data/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/data/base/1... dyld:
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/bin/postgres Undefined symbols:
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/bin/postgres undefined reference
to _crypt expected to be defined in
/usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib
/usr/local/PostgreSQL/bin/initdb: line 473:   536
Broken pipe             cat "$POSTGRES_BKI"
       537                       | sed -e
"s/POSTGRES/$POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME/g" -e
"s/ENCODING/$MULTIBYTEID/g"
       538 Trace/BPT trap          |
"$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x1 $PGSQL_OPT
$BACKEND_TALK_ARG template1

initdb failed.
Removing /usr/local/PostgreSQL/data.


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=?iso-8859-1?q?dinu=20paul?= <dinucpaul@yahoo.co.in> writes:
> /usr/local/PostgreSQL/data/base/1... dyld:
> /usr/local/PostgreSQL/bin/postgres Undefined symbols:
> /usr/local/PostgreSQL/bin/postgres undefined reference
> to _crypt expected to be defined in
> /usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib

We've seen this reported before.  Check the PG list archives for details,
but I think the solution was to rebuild the openssl installation.

            regards, tom lane