On 6 March 2012 17:45, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:25:17 am Thom Brown wrote: > >> >> These are in my env output: >> >> PATH=/home/thom/Development/psql/bin/:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/s >> bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games >> PGDATA=/home/thom/Development/data/ >> PGPORT=5488 >> >> This appears in my build script before configure: >> >> export PGDATA=$HOME/Development/data/ >> export PATH=$HOME/Development/psql/bin/:$PATH >> export PGPORT=5488 >> >> And those 3 lines also appear in my .bashrc file without any variation: >> >> export PGDATA=$HOME/Development/data/ >> export PATH=$HOME/Development/psql/bin/:$PATH >> export PGPORT=5488 > > And you are sure there is no pg_ctl or initdb outside > /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin or /home/thom/Development/psql/bin and in your PATH? > > Just for grins what happens if you try an initdb using an explicit reference to > the binary /home/thom/Development/psql/bin/initdb and the -D > /home/thom/Development/data/ ? thom@swift:~/Development$ /home/thom/Development/psql/bin/initdb -E 'UTF8' -D /home/thom/Development/data/ 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 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" -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
