PLEASE DON'T WRITE TO THIS LIST WITH A FAKE EMAIL ADDRESS. It's been discussed before, but it's rude and counterproductive. Just set up a filter / account that drops everything coming in, but don't stick the rest of us with your broken email behaviour On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Daneel <dan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > While going through > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Detailed_installation_guides > and typing > service postgresql start > as root I got > "/var/lib/pgsql/data is missing. Use "service postgresql initdb" to > initialize the cluster first." > > When I run > service postgresql initdb > I get > "se: [FAILED]". > However, /var/lib/pqsql/data is created and user postgres owns it. > > But then I run > service postgresql start > and the very same error occurs.. > > Daneel > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >