Re: problem installing Postgresql DB

Ingebrigt,

Please keep replies onlist!

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:08:33PM +0100, Ingebrigt Maurstad Berg wrote:
> I solved this problem, after installing all packages in Cygwin,
> including bzip2. I'm now stuck at a different problem:
>
> -I'v installed & started the ipc daemon & postmaster services, and I
> can see in the component services console that they are running.
> (Note: I'm using the Administrator user, not the postgres user)

The above is fine albeit insecure.

> -When I try:
>
> psql -U Administrator template1
>
> I get: "psql: server closed the connection unexpectedly
> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request."
>
> If I refresh the component services console, I see that the
> postmaster service is no longer running.
>
> Do you have any clue as to what is causing this problem ?

No. Is there anything interesting in /var/log/postmaster.log? What
happens when you run postmaster from the command line?

Jason