Instead of executing the command from root ...login as postgres user and try like su - postgres ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paolo De Simone" <pdesimone@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:34 PM Subject: [ADMIN] problems to install PostgreSQL > Hello all, > > i'm trying to install postgresql 8.1.3 > on AIX 5.2 RISC 6000 > > the steps > - ./configure > - gmake > - gmake install > > are OK > > so i created /usr/local/pgsql/data > but when ran > - initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > > had the following result : > > " > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US. > The default database encoding has accordingly been set to LATIN1. > > fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_subtrans ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_twophase ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_multixact/members ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_multixact/offsets ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok > creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 10 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 50 > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... child > process was terminated by signal 11 > initdb: removing contents of data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data" > " > > I have repeated the installation steps for > 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2 versions > but I obtained the same result > > > Many thanx to any that can help. > > > > Greetings > paolo > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster >
