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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: INIT DB FAILURE >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:18:04 -0500 > >"Mike Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.