Hi, i've tried to install 8.4.3 for about two days, but i don't get it. 8.1.x has been installed before and was runnig but never used. I've removed it with yum and wiped /var/lib/pgsl. -=>> service postgresql initdb Initializing database: [FAILED] -=>> cat /var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log 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.UTF-8. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/pgsql/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 24MB creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_authid ... ok initializing dependencies ... ok creating system views ... ok loading system objects' descriptions ... ok creating conversions ... FATAL: could not load library "/usr/lib64/pgsql/utf8_and_shift_jis_2004.so": /usr/lib64/pgsql/utf8_and_shift_jis_2004.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory STATEMENT: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION shift_jis_2004_to_utf8 (INTEGER, INTEGER, CSTRING, INTERNAL, INTEGER) RETURNS VOID AS '$libdir/utf8_and_shift_jis_2004', 'shift_jis_2004_to_utf8' LANGUAGE C STRICT; child process exited with exit code 1 initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" -=>> rpm -qa | grep postgre postgresql-libs-8.1.18-2.el5_4.1 postgresql-libs-8.4.3-2PGDG.el5 postgresql-devel-8.4.3-2PGDG.el5 compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.rhel5 postgresql-server-8.4.3-2PGDG.el5 postgresql-plperl-8.4.3-2PGDG.el5 postgresql-8.4.3-2PGDG.el5 postgresql-contrib-8.4.3-2PGDG.el5 -=>> ldd /usr/lib64/pgsql/utf8_and_shift_jis_2004.so libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002aad6e656000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003777a00000) The server is running with 8 gigs ram, so i think there should be enough mem? Thanks, Valentin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general