Re: New Fedora 3 install gives: relation "pg_catalog.pg_user"

Steve Wampler wrote:

> I don't see any errors when starting with
> "service postgresql start" - and if I empty out
> /var/lib/pgsql, the command initializes the database
> with no errors.

To add a bit more information, and correct the above.
I wasn't seeing any errors because PGLOG was set
to /dev/null in /etc/init.d/postgresql. Changing
that to /var/lib/pgsql, clearing out /var/lib/pgsql,
and restarting gives:

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bash-3.00$ cat /var/log/pgsql
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 en_US.

fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/pgsql/data... ok
creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/base... ok
creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/global... ok
creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... 100
selecting default shared_buffers... 1000
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/1... ok
initializing pg_shadow... ok
enabling unlimited row size for system tables... ok
initializing pg_depend... ok
creating system views... ok
loading pg_description... ok
creating conversions... ok
setting privileges on built-in objects... ok
creating information schema...
initdb: failed
bash-3.00$
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So, initdb isn't completing. Which explains the
error, but doesn't give me enough to figure out a
fix. Ideas?

Thanks!
Steve
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