initdb fails

[Tom Burns]

Hi All,

Just installed PostgreSQL 7.4.5 with Cigwin and get the output copied below when running initdb.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Tom

$ initdb -d
Running in debug mode.

initdb: internal variables:
PGDATA=/usr/share/postgresql/data
datadir=/usr/share/postgresql
PGPATH=/usr/bin
ENCODING=
ENCODINGID=0
POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=Tom Burns
POSTGRES_BKI=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.bki
POSTGRES_DESCR=/usr/share/postgresql/postgres.description
POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample
PG_HBA_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_hba.conf.sample
PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=/usr/share/postgresql/pg_ident.conf.sample
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Tom Burns".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data... ok
creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/base... ok
creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/global... ok
creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /usr/share/postgresql/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
10
selecting default shared_buffers... Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
Signal 12
50
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1... DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1081344)
Signal 12

initdb: failed
initdb: removing data directory "/usr/share/postgresql/data"

[Frans]

Hi Tom,

Have You start Ipc-daemon before initdb ?

[Tom Burns]

Yes. Cygwin IPC Daemon 2 is running as an NT service.

Frans <***@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Tom,

Have You start Ipc-daemon before initdb ?