Re: Unhelpful initdb error message

On 6 March 2012 16:02, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
>> thom(at)swift:~/Development$ initdb
>> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "thom".
>> This user must also own the server process.
>
>> The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_GB.UTF-8.
>> The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
>> The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
>
>> fixing permissions on existing directory /home/thom/Development/data ... ok
>> creating subdirectories ... ok
>> selecting default max_connections ... 10
>> selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB
>> creating configuration files ... ok
>> creating template1 database in /home/thom/Development/data/base/1 ...
>> FATAL:  could not remove old lock file "postmaster.pid": No such file
>> or directory
>> HINT:  The file seems accidentally left over, but it could not be
>> removed. Please remove the file by hand and try again.
>> child process exited with exit code 1
>> initdb: removing contents of data directory "/home/thom/Development/data"
>
> Um ... I assume this is some patched version rather than pristine
> sources?  It's pretty hard to explain why it's falling over like that.

No, I did a "git stash", "git clean -f" and "git pull" before trying to build.

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Thom