On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, yuri wrote: > Hello. I had a problem at installation postgesql as service nt. I do all > under the documentation which is in a file > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5.README > On item 8 at me there is a mistake at initialization of a database. > > $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > [snip] > Signal 12 ^^^^^^^^^ > initdb: failed > Prompt please in what there can be a problem.
Signal 12 is "Bad system call". Quoting from /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.4.5.README: --------------- Regardless of the installation type, the first step is to add "server" to your CYGWIN environment variable setting and start cygserver. See the cygserver README: /usr/share/doc/cygwin/cygserver.README for more details. If the CYGWIN variable is not set correctly and/or cygserver is not running then initdb and postmaster will fail to run properly. --------------- Looks like that's what's happening in your case. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/