Re: initdb hangs

I ran into the same problem last night on an XP Pro box. I was using
version 1.11 of cygipc. Going back to version 1.09 fixed the problem.
I haven't had a chance to try with 1.13 yet.

Anyone else seen this?

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-cygwin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Richard Pais
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:26 PM
To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] initdb hangs

Since ipc-daemon is already running and initdb still hangs, could anyone
familiar with the internals of initdb tell me what could be the possible
reasons. Could it be memory leak, insufficient memory, config tweaking?
i am no unix guru and this whole experience of installing postgres under
W2K Pro for the past whole week with the same errors has been
frustrating. The lack of error messages does not help either. The only
clue I have is that Windows Task Manager shows the CPU usage as 100%.

My system has service pack 3 installed, AMD Athlon XP 1700+ processor
with 1 GB RAM.

Thanks
Richie

Richard Pais <chris_pais(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

Hi!

From the posts in the forum this seems to be the most common problem.
From cygwin I installed postgres, cygrunsrv and bzip2 packages. I also
downloaded and untared cygipc. I followed jason's instructions, and I
get stuck on the initdb step.

I am running W2K professional. When I log in as postgres initdb hangs.
From the postgres user account, I cannot start ipc-daemon, I get Error 5
Access Denied. So from the login of user with administrative rights
using the runas command i open the cygwin shell logged in as postgres.
initdb still hangs with ipc-daemon running as well as without ipc-daemon
running. I even tried running ipc-daemon as a non NT-service (i.e. $
ipc-daemon &) but to no avail.

What could be the reason for this peculiar problem. Please help as
this is stalling the testing of our software which is well-past the
deadline.

Thank you,
Richie

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