Re: INITDB error

hi

in my installation on cygwin/winXP there is exactly the same error. i
updated cygwin before installing postgres 7.4.1, so i don't know what more
i could update there. before i ran postgres 7.3.x without any troubles.

does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
any help or ideas are welcome.

thanks,
jean-pierre

Running in noclean mode. Mistakes will not be cleaned up.
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "...".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/global... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/pg_clog... ok
selecting default max_connections... 100
selecting default shared_buffers... 1000
creating configuration files... ok
creating template1 database in
/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/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... ERROR: end-of-copy marker does not match
previous newline style
CONTEXT: COPY tmp_pg_description, line 1542: ""

initdb: failed
initdb: data directory
"/usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data" not removed
at user's request