Tom,
Thanks for your comments. I cannot think of anything that might be out
of the ordinary on this machine. I did the install of the RHL 7.1 myself.
I also did the install of the rpms myself and encountered no problems or
errors.
I am including the backtrace form the gdb on the core produced my
initdb.
Thanks again for your help.
Bradley Brown
gdb output with backtrace -
[postgres@huma 1]$ cat gdb.out
GNU gdb 5.0rh-5 Red Hat Linux 7.1
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"..."/usr/bin/initdb": not in
executable format: File format not recognized
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/postgres -o /dev/null -O -F
-D/var/lib/pgsql/data template1'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x402b66b9 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x402b66b9 in ?? ()
#1 0x4001cdcf in ?? ()
#2 0x4001d80b in ?? ()
#3 0x4001d432 in ?? ()
#4 0x080ff565 in ?? ()
#5 0x081062ba in ?? ()
#6 0x08106259 in ?? ()
#7 0x081070e9 in ?? ()
#8 0x08144364 in ?? ()
#9 0x081446b6 in ?? ()
#10 0x08144838 in ?? ()
#11 0x08101518 in ?? ()
#12 0x08142a15 in ?? ()
#13 0x0808195b in ?? ()
#14 0x08081c55 in ?? ()
#15 0x080b35a4 in ?? ()
#16 0x080afe06 in ?? ()
#17 0x080afd57 in ?? ()
#18 0x0810aaea in ?? ()
#19 0x081087ab in ?? ()
#20 0x081098ee in ?? ()
#21 0x080cfaf4 in ?? ()
#22 0x4025b177 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit
[postgres@huma 1]$
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bradley Brown <bradley@segrestfarms.com> writes:
> > [ initdb crashes on RHL 7.1 ]
>
> Curious. Can you think of anything at all that's unusual about your
> installation? You're surely not the first to use these RPMs on RHL 7.1,
> so there must be something out of the ordinary.
>
> > Core was generated by `/usr/bin/postgres -o /dev/null -O -F
> > -D/var/lib/pgsql/data template1'.
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > #0 0x402b66b9 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) quit
>
> This is quite unhelpful --- but a backtrace (bt) might tell something.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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