Re: Solaris 10 problem

On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Doron Baranes wrote:
> This is exactly what i am doing.
>
> Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
> You have new mail.
> # su - postgres
> Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
> -bash-3.00$ id
> uid=49500(postgres) gid=65434(postgres)
> -bash-3.00$ initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> -bash: /usr/bin/initdb: Invalid argument

Hmm... I think that's actually bash generating the error. It seems to
be unhappy with initdb for some unknown reason. It might be worth
trying with another shell (I think solaris installs ksh or csh by
default).

> permissions on /usr/bin/initdb is
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin        56276 Jul 12 19:26 /usr/bin/initdb
>
> permissions on the /var/lib/pgsql/data
> drwx------   2 postgres postgres     512 Nov 27 15:43 data
>
> 10x 4 the help
> Doron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Nasby [mailto:decibel@decibel.org]
> Sent: Tue 11/28/2006 1:06 AM
> To: Doron Baranes
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: Solaris 10 problem
>
> On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Doron Baranes wrote:
>> I installed postgres 814 on solaris 10 using the following packages
>> SUNWpostgr-libs-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-server-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-server-data-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-contrib-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-devel-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-docs-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-jdbc-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-tcl-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>> SUNWpostgr-pl-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>>
>> and no error occured.
>>
>> when i try to run initdb i get Invalid Argument.
>
> What's the *exact* error you got, and how *exactly* did you invoke
> initdb?
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