Re: "pg_ctl: the PID file ... is empty" at end of make check

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 4:10 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > Today I saw a one-off case of $SUBJECT, on macOS. I can't reproduce
> > it, but I noticed exactly the same thing on longfin the other day:
> > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=longfin&dt=2018-11-25%2005%3A39%3A04
> > Anyone know what that's about?
>
> No :-(. I was wondering about that longfin failure too. What macOS
> version are you running?
>
> (longfin is up to date, 10.14.1. Is it worth noting that I jacked
> up the name and drove new hardware underneath it just last week?
> Hard to see how that could be related, but ...)

I have not yet accepted the offer to update to 10.14.1, so I guess it
must be 10.14.0, though the about box just says 10.14. According to
sw_vers, it's 10.14 build 18A391.

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Thomas Munro
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