initdb fails on ultra2 sparc64, freebsd 5.4

On a Sun ultra2 sparc64 initdb hangs here:

$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "pgsql".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/global ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_subtrans ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok
creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers ... 1000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ...

After killing initdb with ^C postgres is still running
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
23061 pgsql -8 0 30264K 8984K piperd 0:10 0.00% 0.00% postgres

$ uname -a
FreeBSD ultra2 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 22:21:34 UTC
2005 root(at)binkley(dot)cse(dot)buffalo(dot)edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Configured with: FreeBSD/sparc64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728

PostgreSQL config.status 8.0.3
configured by ./configure, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53,
with options \"'--with-libraries=/usr/local/lib'
'--with-includes=/usr/local/i
nclude' '--with-docdir=/usr/local/share/doc/postgresql' '--with-openssl'
'--disa
ble-nls' '--enable-thread-safety' '--prefix=/usr/local'
'sparc64-portbld-freebsd
5.4' 'LDFLAGS= -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib' 'CFLAGS=-O
-pipe
' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include' 'host_alias=sparc64-portbld-freebsd5.4'
'buil
d_alias=sparc64-portbld-freebsd5.4' 'target_alias=sparc64-portbld-freebsd5.4'
'C
C=cc'\"

David
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