Hello! I've just tried to initdb a fresh install of PostgreSQL 8.3.2 on Debian Etch (testing). My configure settings were ./configure --prefix=/opt/pgsql --datadir=/var/lib/pgsql/data/base --enable-locale --with-perl --enable-odbc --with-java This is what happens: postgres@etchvm:~$ /opt/pgsql/bin/initdb -D -locale=de_DE.UTF-8 /var/lib/pgsql/data/ initdb: file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/postgres.bki" does not exist This means you have a corrupted installation or identified the wrong directory with the invocation option -L. So I use the -L switch and try again: postgres@etchvm:~$ /opt/pgsql/bin/initdb -D -locale=de_DE.UTF-8 /var/lib/pgsql/data/base -L /var/lib/pgsql/data/input/ 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 de_DE.UTF-8. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8. fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/base ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000 creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/base/1 ... FATAL: invalid value for parameter "timezone_abbreviations": "Default" child process exited with exit code 1 initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data/base" postgres@etchvm:~$ ls -l /var/lib/pgsql/data/input/ insgesamt 624 drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres daemon 4096 2007-02-11 03:22 contrib -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 41682 2007-02-11 03:19 conversion_create.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 82686 2007-02-11 03:19 information_schema.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 3257 2007-02-11 03:19 pg_hba.conf.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 1460 2007-02-11 03:19 pg_ident.conf.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 542 2007-02-11 03:19 pg_service.conf.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 335770 2007-02-11 03:19 postgres.bki -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 61773 2007-02-11 03:19 postgres.description -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 15322 2007-02-11 03:19 postgresql.conf.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 40 2007-02-11 03:19 postgres.shdescription -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 211 2007-02-11 03:19 psqlrc.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 2689 2007-02-11 03:19 recovery.conf.sample -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 22311 2007-02-11 03:19 sql_features.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 13385 2007-02-11 03:19 system_views.sql drwxr-xr-x 19 postgres daemon 4096 2007-02-11 03:19 timezone drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres daemon 4096 2007-02-11 03:19 timezonesets postgres@etchvm:~$ ls -l /var/lib/pgsql/data/input/timezonesets/Default -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres daemon 28709 2007-02-11 03:19 /var/lib/pgsql/data/input/timezonesets/Default LC_time is set to de_DE, LC_ALL is set to de_DE.UTF-8. Does anybody have an idea what's going wrong here? Kind regards Markus Computec Media AG Sitz der Gesellschaft und Registergericht: Furth (HRB 8818) Vorstandsmitglieder: Johannes S. Gozalan (Vorsitzender) und Niels Herrmann Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Jurg Marquard Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer: DE 812 575 276
