Re: FW: Latest cygwin always crashing with Postgres

On step 6, something unusual happened. Instead of postmaster starting, I
got:

Starting program: /usr/bin/postmaster -D pgdata
LOG: database system was shut down at 2003-02-09 23:17:47 EST
LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/83B1E8
LOG: redo record is at 0/83B1E8; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG: next transaction id: 480; next oid: 16976
LOG: database system is ready
FATAL: Database "Owner" does not exist in the system catalog.
LOG: shutting down
LOG: database system is shut down

Here's the text from my initdb previously:
-----------------------------------------------
$ initdb pgdata
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "Owner".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory pgdata... ok
creating directory pgdata/base... ok
creating directory pgdata/global... ok
creating directory pgdata/pg_xlog... ok
creating directory pgdata/pg_clog... ok
creating template1 database in pgdata/base/1... ok
creating configuration files... 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
vacuuming database template1... ok
copying template1 to template0... ok

Success. You can now start the database server using:

/usr/bin/postmaster -D pgdata
or
/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D pgdata -l logfile start
-----------------------------------------------

Could all this be somehow related to XP account/computer naming? E.g. in
the bash shell, my username is coming out as "Owner(at)Thought1" Maybe
something internally is reading that @ and getting all fouled up.

Thanks for all your help so far.

-- Seth

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason(at)tishler(dot)net]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:34 PM
To: Seth Rubin
Cc: Pgsql-Cygwin
Subject: Re: FW: [CYGWIN] Latest cygwin always crashing with Postgres

Seth,

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:10:27PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:10:02PM -0500, Seth Rubin wrote:
> > Attached.
>
> Well, it is crashing (for you) in postgres.exe and not cygwin1.dll.
> I will try with 1.3.19-1 and 1.3.20-1 and report back tomorrow.

I found some unexpected time tonight. Sorry, but I cannot reproduce
your problem on Windows 2000. Under Cygwin 1.3.19-1 and 1.3.20-1,
PostgreSQL 7.3.1-1 successfully ran the entire regression test (i.e.,
make installcheck) without any stackdumps.

My WAG is something specific to your setup (e.g., XP, Cygwin
configuration, etc.) is tickling a bug.

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:14:52PM -0500, Seth Rubin wrote:
> I'm even open to trying to debug it, if you can give me some idea how
> to do that in the winxp world.

Well, debugging under Cygwin (on any Windows OS) is pretty much the same
as anywhere else the GNU tools run. If you want to roll up your sleeves
and debug, then:

1. download the PostgreSQL 7.3.1-1 source from any Cygwin mirror

2.
configure --enable-debug --enable-multibyte --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

3. make

4. cp postgresql-7.3.1-1/src/backend/postgres.exe /usr/bin

5. gdb -nw postmaster

6. run -D /usr/share/postgresql/data (in gdb)

7. psql template1 (in another window)

8. investigate SEGV (in gdb)

Good Luck,
Jason

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