Re: InitDB: Bad system call

=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Torsten_Z=FChlsdorff?= <foo@meisterderspiele.de> writes:
>> How annoying :-(.  I think what you need to do is use truss or strace
>> or local equivalent with the follow-forks flag, so that you can see what
>> the stand-alone backend process does, not just initdb itself.

> Ok, next round. I just have truss as an option, because strace didn't
> work at my AMD64. Hope its helpfull:

> $ truss -f -o /tmp/pgtuss-f.txt /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data

> Result:
> http://www.dddbl.de/pg-truss-f.txt

[ scratches head ... ]  That looks like it got interrupted before
getting to anything interesting.  Did the console printout show any "Bad
system call" reports?

            regards, tom lane