On 12/13/12, David Noel <david.i.noel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running into the following error message when running initdb (FreeBSD > host): > > ygg# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb -D /zdb/pgsql/data --debug > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "pgsql". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locales > COLLATE: C > CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 > MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8 > MONETARY: en_US.UTF-8 > NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8 > TIME: en_US.UTF-8 > The default text search configuration will be set to "english". > > creating directory /zdb/pgsql/data ... ok > creating subdirectories ... ok > selecting default max_connections ... 100 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 32MB > creating configuration files ... ok > creating template1 database in /zdb/pgsql/data/base/1 ... FATAL: > could not open file "pg_xlog/000000010000000000000001" (log file 0, > segment 1): No such file or directory > child process exited with exit code 1 > initdb: removing data directory "/zdb/pgsql/data" > > My best guess is that it has something to do with permissions, but I > really have no idea. Has anyone seen this before and found a way > around it? > > -David Interestingly, I have a second--virtually identical--server that I just tried initdb on. FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5, postgresql-server-9.2.2. Exact same "FATAL: could not open file pg_xlog" error. So it is reproducible. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general