Re: What else can I do?

Sergio Tirado Ochoa wrote:
>
> STEP ONE
>
> I installed Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore) Kernel 2.0.30 on an i586
> on a brand new HP Vectra VL computer. I installed *everything*. I ended up
> with a brand new fat Unix server.
>
> STEP TWO
>
> I created the user pgsql, downloaded postgresql-6.2.1-2.i586.rpm and
> installed it.
>
> STEP THREE
>
> After rebooting I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It
> complained and asked for cryptlib so I looked for it and found
> glibc-crypt-2.0.4-1.i386.rpm and installed it.
>
> STEP FOUR
>
> I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It complained and asked
> for libc.so.6 so I looked for it, found it and installed it.
>
> STEP FIVE
>
> I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It complained and asked
> for ld-linux.so.2 so I looked for it, found it and installed it.
>
> STEP SIX
>
> I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It complained and told me
> "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".
>
> What else can I do?
>
> --
> I suggest error messages could be more friendly and instead of saying
>
> postmaster: can't load library 'libcrypt.so.1'
>
> they should say
>
> postmaster: can't load library 'libcrypt.so.1', check
> /usr/doc/postgresql-6.2.1-2/findit.txt to see where you can find it
>
> It would make our lives easier.
>
> Maybe I'm asking for too much but the XMas spirit got to me already.
>
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Maybe you may try compiling postgres yourself. That's what I've done
in several machines and in them the server is running smoothly.

Best regards, merry christmas. :)
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