Re: BUG #5430: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql

Affirmative...

Jamie Strachan

----- Original Message ----
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jamie Strachan <frostfreek(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 11:29:57 AM
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5430: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql

Would you report this to the RPM maintainers?

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Jamie Strachan wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 5430
> Logged by: Jamie Strachan
> Email address: frostfreek(at)yahoo(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4.3-2PGDG.el4
> Operating system: CentOS 4
> Description: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql
> Details:
>
> Hello,
>
> Downloaded the following RPM:
> http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-4-i386/postgresql-server-8.4.3-2PGD
> G.el4.i386.rpm
>
> for my CentOS 4 install.
>
> service postgresql initdb fails with no error message.
>
> So, I su'd to postgres, and ran
>
> initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data --auth=ident
> which is what service postgresql initdb does.
> This command failed, with the error message:
>
> could not open directory "/usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets"
>
>
> I did a
> chown -R postgres:postgres /usr/share/pgsql
> and then it worked fine.
>
> Using rpm2cpio {file} | cpio -tv
> I see:
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Mar 17 16:21 ./usr/share/pgsql
> which is fine, however there is no specific entry for
> /usr/share/timezone.
> The post-install script doesn't seem to fix it, either.
>
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