[postgis-users] error initdb when getting Postgres from source

[TECHER Jean David]

for 7.4.2, I am not pretty sure but

perhaps see this link

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2004-05/msg00013.php


----- Original Message -----
From: "Januar V. Simarmata" <januar at web4yours.com>
To: <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:09 AM
Subject: [postgis-users] error initdb when getting Postgres from source


> Hi,
> I always got this error each time getting Postgres from source.
> I've tried several version: 7.4.1, 7.4.2, 7.4.5, 8.00beta8, but always got
> the same result.
>
> Procedure I used to compile is very usual:
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> I am building on Cygwin on XP.
> Using GCC 3.3.3, and the latest related programs/library for Cygwin.
>
> ************************
> $ initdb -D /pgdata
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
>
> creating directory /pgdata ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/global ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/pg_xlog ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/pg_clog ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/pg_subtrans ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/base ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/base/1 ... ok
> creating directory /pgdata/pg_tblspc ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
> creating configuration files ... ok
> creating template1 database in /pgdata/base/1 ... FATAL:  semctl(125, 16,
> SETVAL
> , 536) failed: Invalid argument
> child process exited with exit code 1
> initdb: failed
> initdb: removing data directory "/pgdata"
> $
> ************************
>
> thanks for help,
> Jan
>
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