[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > The /etc/init.d/postgresql script actually does an initdb for me. Here is > a copy of that line from the script: > > su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data > > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null > > After this line, it checks whether a PG_VERSION file exists in > /var/lib/pgsql/data and if not, it fails. This is the failure I see.
I have a stable database installation, so I can't try 'initdb' again, but I did find this in the /usr/bin/initdb script at line 466: Top level PG_VERSION is checked by bootstrapper, so make it first echo "$short_version" > "$PGDATA/PG_VERSION" || exit_nicely The only reason I can think of off-the-top-of-my-head that could cause that to fail would be permissions on the postgres data directory. Is your data directory owned by 'postgres', or some other user(root?)? If you can, I'd try removing the var/lib/pgsql/data directory and as user 'postgres' try running 'initdb' again. Hardy Merrill > > If I run the above initdb command by hand without the redirction to > /dev/null I see the following message: > > "The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > This user must also own the server process. > > initdb: The directory /var/lib/pgsql/data exists but is not empty. If you > want > to create a new database system, either remove or empty the directory > /var/lib/pgsql/data or run initdb with an argument other than > /var/lib/pgsql/data." > > The /var/lib/pgsql/data directory does have one file in it: pg_hba.conf. > This file was present after my installation process, I didn't move it > there. > > RH -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
