Re: BUG #5680: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Alexey Parshin's message of lun sep 27 16:56:01 -0400 2010:
>> PostgreSQL (fresh install) fails to start.
>> The only message in the log file says:
>> FATAL: too many private dirs demanded

> Weird.  A result of some gentoo patch perhaps?  Please try

Is it possible that gentoo has more than 32 levels of subdirectory
underneath /usr/share/timezone (or whatever the local equivalent is)?

            regards, tom lane