On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:46:37 am Thom Brown wrote: > Hi all, > > After building Postgres and trying an initdb, I'm getting the following: > > > thom@swift:~/Development$ initdb > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "thom". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_GB.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 /home/thom/Development/data ... ok > creating subdirectories ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 10 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in /home/thom/Development/data/base/1 ... > FATAL: could not remove old lock file "postmaster.pid": No such file > or directory > HINT: The file seems accidentally left over, but it could not be > removed. Please remove the file by hand and try again. > child process exited with exit code 1 > initdb: removing contents of data directory "/home/thom/Development/data" > > > It can't remove an old lock file due to it not existing, but the hint > says it was left over but couldn't be removed. The hint contradicts > the error message. There is nothing in the data directory at all > before trying this, and nothing after. Repeating initdb yields the > same result. > > But, if I rename the data directory to something else and mkdir data > again, all is well. I can make it break again by removing the new > data directory and renaming the old one back to data, still completely > empty. Note that throughout all of this, Postgres is running, but as > a separate user and using completely separate directories, since it's > the standard packaged version on Debian. > > Can anyone suggest what is wrong here? The postmaster.pid is located outside the data directory, but points back to the data directory. Not sure where Debian, though at a guess somewhere in /var. Any way search for postmaster.pid. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
