Re: initdb crashing, signal 5, etc

I am specifically *not* seeing this on any of my three installes (1
normal + 2 vmware). I've tried with the exact same binary Merlin is
using (and he sees it), and he gets the crash and not me...

Further investigation definitly needed. Let's try to nail down where the
issue started showing up by pulling older cvs versions to identify the
commit. I wonder if this could be related to the pipe patch, since it
appears to show up on win32 only.

//Magnus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:48 AM
> To: Jacob Hanson
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] initdb crashing, signal 5, etc
>
>
> I saw the exact same behavior in my testing.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
>
> Jacob Hanson wrote:
> > Had success with a snapshot from last week. Today's
> snapshot crashes
> > several times during initdb. As soon as "selecting default
> > max_connections" appears, postgres.exe crashes ("postgres.exe has
> > encountered a problem and needs to close."). After closing
> 6 of those
> > "10" appears and it continues to "selecting default shared_buffers".
> > 11 crashes then "50" appears. It continues to the "No such file or
> > directory" error and postgres.exe crashes once, then the signal 5
> > message appears. Full initdb output is below.
> >
> > Observations: During the crashes, postgresql.conf is created, but
> > remains 0 bytes. Cacls reports my "postgres" user has full
> access to
> > the entire c:\dev\pgsql tree, including the data dir,
> postgresql.conf
> > (after it has been created), and c:\dev\pgsql\share\timezone, which
> > certainly exists (note: NOT "/shared/timezone" necessarily), etc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > C:\dev\pgsql\data>initdb -d -L "c:/dev/pgsql/share"
> > Running in debug mode.
> > VERSION=7.5devel
> > PGDATA=C:/dev/pgsql/data
> > share_path=c:/dev/pgsql/share
> > PGPATH=C:/dev/pgsql/bin
> > ENCODING=
> > ENCODINGID=0
> > POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=postgres
> > POSTGRES_BKI=c:/dev/pgsql/share/postgres.bki
> > POSTGRES_DESCR=c:/dev/pgsql/share/postgres.description
> > POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=c:/dev/pgsql/share/postgresql.conf.sample
> > PG_HBA_SAMPLE=c:/dev/pgsql/share/pg_hba.conf.sample
> > PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=c:/dev/pgsql/share/pg_ident.conf.sample
> > The files belonging to this database system will be owned
> by user "postgres".
> > This user must also own the server process.
> >
> > The database cluster will be initialized with locale
> English_United States.1252.
> >
> > fixing permissions on existing directory C:/dev/pgsql/data ... ok
> > creating directory C:/dev/pgsql/data/global ... ok creating
> directory
> > C:/dev/pgsql/data/pg_xlog ... ok creating directory
> > C:/dev/pgsql/data/pg_clog ... ok creating directory
> > C:/dev/pgsql/data/pg_subtrans ... ok creating directory
> > C:/dev/pgsql/data/base ... ok creating directory
> > C:/dev/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok creating directory
> > C:/dev/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok selecting default
> max_connections
> > ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers ... 50 creating
> configuration
> > files ... ok creating template1 database in
> C:/dev/pgsql/data/base/1
> > ... LOG: could not open directory "/share/timezone": No
> such file or
> > directory child process was terminated by signal 5
> > initdb: failed
> > initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/dev/pgsql/data"
> > Deleted file - C:\dev\pgsql\data\pg_hba.conf Deleted file -
> > C:\dev\pgsql\data\pg_ident.conf Deleted file -
> > C:\dev\pgsql\data\PG_VERSION Deleted file -
> > C:\dev\pgsql\data\postgresql.conf
> >
> >
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