Re: InitDB: Bad system call

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Torsten Zühlsdorff's message of mié ago 11 02:52:34 -0400 2010:
>>>> Bad system call (core dumped)

> I think you should try harder to generate the core file.  Maybe you have
> too low an "ulimit -c" setting?

The kernel message indicates that core *is* being dumped.  Possibly it's
being dumped in the $PGDATA directory, which initdb will rm -rf on
failure.  Try using initdb --noclean.

            regards, tom lane