From: | Rafael Martinez Guerrero <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Problems with initdb 8.0.1 |
Date: | 2005-02-02 11:17:25 |
Message-ID: | 1107343044.13023.35.camel@bbking.uio.no |
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Hello
I have a problem running initdb 8.0.1. I get this error message when I
try to run this command in my system:
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-bash-2.05b$ /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb
The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as
"/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb(at)386linuxlibc63".
Check your installation.
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strace shows this:
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......
......
getcwd("/", 1024) = 10
chdir("/local/opt/postgresql/bin") = 0
lstat64("initdb", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=82, ...}) = 0
readlink("initdb",
"/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb(at)386linuxlibc63", 1024) = 82
chdir("/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin") =
0
lstat64("initdb(at)386linuxlibc63", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47506,
...}) = 0
getcwd("/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin",
1024) = 73
chdir("/") = 0
write(2, "The program \"postgres\" is needed"..., 209The program
"postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as
"/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb(at)386linuxlibc63".
Check your installation.
) = 209
exit_group(1) = ?
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Some additional information:
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We are running a system for administration of third party software on
UNIX computers (store). With this system we can compile in a master
server versions for different platforms and different versions of the
software for a platform, distribution happens automatic.
This system is well tested and works without a problem. We have been
running the last 8-9 version of postgres in this system without a
problem.
What the system does is to create a symblink to the version for your
machine (among other things).
For example:
If we install the binaries for postgres under /local/opt/postgresql/bin,
initdb in this directory will be a symblink to
"/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb(at)386linuxlibc63
and
/local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres will we a symblink to
/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres(at)386linuxlibc63(dot)
if we are in a linux machine.
If we run the same version in a solaris machine:
/local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb -->
/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb(at)sun4os58
and
/local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres -->
/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres(at)sun4os58
Solution to the problem?:
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I solution to this problem will be to look for postgres under the same
directory of initdb (/local/opt/postgresql/bin in our example) and not
under the directory of the initdb symblink target.
Any comment to this?
Thanks for your time.
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Rafael Martinez, <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway
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