Re: Failed to run initdb - not resolved bug 5130

Hi,
I have some time now. I've tried to compile postgres from CVS but wihout
success. I don't have visual studio 2005 installed so I've tried eclipse +
MinGw. I checked out postgres from cvs branch "REL8_4_STABLE". But I wasn't
able to compile it. I don't know how to configure builders to launch
makefiles or what to do.

Any help will be apprecciated and write in-depth receipe, I am not a C/C++
developer (I am Java oriented).

Tomas

Robert Haas wrote:
>
> 2010/1/2 Tomas Studva <tstudva(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> Hi all gurus,
>>
>> I've encountered on my computer this bug. I will try to describe all what
>> I
>> have discovered till now.
>>
>> 1, this bug happened a few times before and wasn't resolved:
>>   bug 5130 -
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org/msg24810.html
>>   bug 5222 -
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-12/msg00004.php
>>   bug 4691 -
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-03/msg00028.php
>>   ? - http://forums.enterprisedb.com/posts/list/1845.page
>> I think the problem was always the same.
>>
>> My case is WIN XP SP 2 and also when applied SP3. My system has only one
>> speciality as I know, that is I have windows installed on F partition.
>>
>> Problem description:
>>
>> I tried install with one click installer, it ends with error
>> postgresql.conf
>> not found. In log it is failing on initdb, which clears data dir after
>> failure. Uninstaller is not working, do nothing when runned. When run
>> installation again, then upgrade mode is run, because installation is
>> found.
>> This can be tricked by deleting installation from registry and deleting
>> win
>> service, then new install is possible.
>>
>> I was installing on path F:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4 and also tried
>> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4, problem is probably not with install
>> path.
>>
>> OK, what more I have tried. MS Visuall C++ redistr. I uninstalled, so the
>> one with postgres comming were installed surely. I tried to enable debug
>> output, but it gives no new information. I was reading initdb sources and
>> problem is probably in this part, because I see message "selecting
>> default
>> max_connections " then one error message. It looks for me as snprintf is
>> not
>> executed or reached or etc.
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   printf(_("selecting default max_connections ... "));
>>   fflush(stdout);
>>
>>   for (i = 0; i < connslen; i++)
>>   {
>>       test_conns = trial_conns[i];
>>       test_buffs = MIN_BUFS_FOR_CONNS(test_conns);
>>
>>       snprintf(cmd, sizeof(cmd),
>>                SYSTEMQUOTE "\"%s\" --boot -x0 %s "
>>                "-c max_connections=%d "
>>                "-c shared_buffers=%d "
>>                "< \"%s\" > \"%s\" 2>&1" SYSTEMQUOTE,
>>                backend_exec, boot_options,
>>                test_conns, test_buffs,
>>                DEVNULL, DEVNULL);
>
> Are you able to compile from source? If so, can you hack this part to
> print the value of cmd at this point, so you can see clearly exactly
> what it's trying unsuccessfully to do?
>
> ...Robert
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