RE: Initdb and IpcMemoryCreate Errors

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:Jason.Tishler@dothill.com]
> Sent: 30 April 2001 17:01
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: 'pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org'
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Initdb and IpcMemoryCreate Errors
>
>
> Dave,
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:34:39PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > > Upgrade to 1.3.1 (if you are bold) or to a snapshot
> (e.g., 20010413).
> >
> > Hmm, I thought I had - it must have got lost during all my
> re-installs.
>
> I thought that you had too.
>
> > Anyway, trying again, 1.3.1 gives the same error,
>
> This is very bad -- are you sure?  I have run 1.3.1 on NT 4.0 SP6 and
> 2000 SP1 without any problems (i.e., all regression test pass).
>
> > however 20010413 works!
>
> I'm glad that you have a working setup, but I implore you to
> figure out
> why 1.3.1 is not working for you.  Are you sure that the
> upgrade worked?
> For example, if ipc-daemon is still running, then the overwrite of
> cygwin1.dll will fail.  Use uname -r to verify.  Please
> report back your
> findings to the list.

Jason,

I've found the error (which probably caused my earlier problem to continue
longer than they needed to). In my clean installation, cygwin1.dll is
installed  in /bin. I downloaded cygwin-1.3.1.tar.gz and then untarred it
over my existing installation, not realising that in the archive,
cygwin1.dll (and some other .exes) is in /usr/bin. So all the time I *had*
upgraded to 1.3.1, it was just that the older .dll was in a directory
located before /usr/bin in the path! I've now moved the files from /usr/bin
to /bin, and all works fine (and uname -r proves I am running 1.3.1 this
time).

Thanks again for your help,

Regards, Dave.