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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!mackay02.cqit.qld.edu.au!nanguo.chalmers.com.au!robert From: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) Subject: [q] still on postgres95 Organization: China House. Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:00:15 GMT Message-ID: <E0E6GF.MF.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 59 Firstly: I'm running FreeBSD 2.2-SNAP, from Feb/March. Pentium 120. I've combed the Makefile.global carefully. Well, I rekon there is a glitch somewhere. Perhaps it is the flex-2.5.3 after all, but where? I checked the gmake log line by line, thousands of it. No warnings or errors anywhere. Everything compiled perfectly - apparently. I then did the gmake install, checked the log. perfect. I then tried a "postmaster -d >& pm.log &" startup, and of course it bombed. as it should. I then did the 'initdb", which worked fine, I then did the "postmaster ...." bit again, and bang! it blows up. The short three startup logs are here, so if anyone has a similar experience, I'd sure like to know how you fixed it. Is it the flex version ? I might have to go to the flex-2.5.2 version, one release earlier maybe? or is it something else. A bad system call indicates something wrong in the actual function calls? anyway, here's the little logs of startup; >postmaster does not find the database. Expected to find it in the PGDATA >directory "/usr/local/postgres95/data", but unable to open directory with >pathname "/usr/local/postgres95/data/base/template1/pg_class". >initdb: verbose mode on >initdb: using /usr/local/postgres95/data/files/local1_template1.bki >initdb: using /usr/local/postgres95/data/files/global1.bki >initdb: creating SHARED relations in /usr/local/postgres95/data >initdb: creating template database in /usr/local/postgres95/data/base/template1 >postgres -boot -C -F -Q template1 < /usr/local/postgres95/data/files/local1_template1.bki >postgres -boot -C -F -Q template1 < /usr/local/postgres95/data/files/global1.bki >postgres -boot -C -F -Q template1 < /tmp/create.13199 >vacuuming template1 >FindBackend: searching PATH ... >ValidateBackend: can't stat "/sbin/postgres" >ValidateBackend: can't stat "/bin/postgres" >ValidateBackend: can't stat "/usr/sbin/postgres" >ValidateBackend: can't stat "/usr/bin/postgres" >ValidateBackend: can't stat "/usr/games/postgres" >ValidateBackend: can't stat "/usr/local/bin/postgres" >FindBackend: found "/usr/local/postgres95/bin/postgres" using PATH -- The China House Sheng Huo Jiu Shi Dou Zheng robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E. -- The China House Sheng Huo Jiu Shi Dou Zheng robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E.