DANTE ALEXANDRA <ALEXANDRA.DANTE@xxxxxxxx> writes: > we recompiled and built an RPM on IA64, release of postgresql : 8.1.1, > on RHEL4 update 2, > the installation of the rpm seem to be good, > we install with --nodeps , and we indicate the path for the library's > /opt/intel_cc_80/lib > but when trying to init with the user account "pg_811", > it fall in panic, Whose RPM did you use, and did you use any special options? Why did you feel it necessary to use --nodeps? > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=11083776) > LOG: database system was shut down at 2006-01-20 07:13:57 CET > LOG: invalid primary checkpoint link in control file > PANIC: invalid record offset at 0/0 > child process was terminated by signal 6 Hm, I wonder what's getting written into the files ... would you run initdb with --noclean and then post the results of * pg_controldata $PGDATA * od -x $PGDATA/pg_xlog/000000010000000000000000 (I'm assuming that the file is there and od won't produce much output ... if it comes to megabytes don't post it ...) regards, tom lane