Re: initdb takes forever!

That's it - Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Tishler" <Jason(dot)Tishler(at)dothill(dot)com>
To: "S. L." <s0lao(at)netscape(dot)net>
Cc: <rblack(at)iarchives(dot)com>; <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] initdb takes forever!

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:33:21AM -0400, S. L. wrote:
> "Russell Black" <rblack(at)iarchives(dot)com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Fixing permissions on existing directory a
> > Creating directory a/base
> > Creating directory a/global
> > Creating directory a/pg_xlog
> > Creating template1 database in a/base/1
> >
> > It gets this far and then sits there and takes up all my CPU with
virtually no disk activity, seemingly indefinately! How long should creating
template1 take? I've been waiting for about 15 minutes so far
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Russ
>
> This situation often happens because either you didn't run ipc-daemon
before initdb, or because your ipc-daemon isn't functional.

The 100% CPU indicates that Russell forgot to start ipc-daemon and/or
install cygipc.

Jason

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