Edmund Horner <ejrh00@gmail.com> writes:
> On 12 June 2012 14:23, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Hm, that patch seems to be several bricks shy of a load. I will fix
>> two obvious bugs in it:
>> (1) not dump core on boxes where printf("%s", NULL) dumps core;
> I saw that, but I couldn't decide if it was the actual problem in my
> case. Later parts of adjust_data_dir appeared to be running (looking
> at file system activity).
The weird thing is that if it's not dumping core, the first fopen would
presumably be trying to open "/postgresql.conf", which generally ought
to fail and thus mask any problems in the rest of adjust_data_dir().
Have you by any chance got a postgresql.conf laying about in your root
directory?
regards, tom lane