Re: installer problems

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On tor, 2010-09-23 at 16:45 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Samuel Rettore <rettore(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm having problems installing the database, see:
>> >
>> > anfitrite:/opt# ./postgresql-9.0.0-1-linux.bin
>> >
>> > Error: Error running /tmp/postgresql_installer/getlocales  : child killed:
>> > floating-point exception
>> > Press [Enter] to continue :
>> > anfitrite:/opt#
>> >
>> >
>> > anfitrite:/opt# uname -a
>> > Linux anfitrite 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Fri Feb 19 23:40:03 UTC 2010 i686
>> > GNU/Linux
>> >
>> > anfitrite:/opt# cat /etc/debian_version
>> > 4.0
>>
>> Debian is not a supported platform for the installers - we don't see
>> enough demand for it to justify the testing requirements I'm afraid.
>
> Surely the error message can be polished, though?

Well we don't know what errors we might get on unsupported platforms
until we test them, and we certainly don't have the resources to test
every unsupported platform. It's hard enough to test the 40 or so we
do support.

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