I had the same.......
Did you run ipc-daemon? Worked for me...
gr,
Willem
"Jason Tishler" <jason@tishler.net> wrote in message
news:20010919174409.J2008@dothill.com...
> Brian,
>
> In the future, please post to pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org instead of
> sending private email so others can benefit too.
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:23:28PM -0700, Brian Rak wrote:
> > I am trying to get PostgresQL to work on my Win2K box running Cygwin,
and I
> > wonder if you would be so kind as to help me. I got your address from:
http://
> > www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?supported-platforms.html.
>
> Hmm...
>
> > The problem I'm having is that when I run initdb, everything looks good
until
> > the fifth line. Here's what I get:
> >
> > Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata
> > Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata/base
> > Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata/global
> > Creating directory /usr/lib/pgdata/pg_xlog
> > Creating template1 database in /usr/lib/pgdata/base/1
> >
> > At this line, my system hangs and a look at the Task Manager reveals
that the
> > process Postgres.exe is consuming all my processor resources. If you hae
any
> > ideas at all, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks so much for your time.
>
> Did you attempt to search the pgsql-cygwin mailing list archive? If so,
> then you would have found many answers to your question such as the
> following:
>
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1031506
>
> Jason
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