initdb failure on RH 5.10

<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">One of our sites ran into
aproblem with database installation:<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">initdbfailed </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">FATAL: unexpected data beyond
EOFin block 19 of relation base/1/2609 </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">HINT: This
hasbeen seen to occur with buggy kernels; consider updating your system. </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">STATEMENT: COMMENT ON FUNCTION euc_jis_2004_to_shift_jis_2004</span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-family:"Courier New"">          (INTEGER, INTEGER, CSTRING, INTERNAL, INTEGER)
</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">           IS 'internal conversion function for
EUC_JIS_2004to SHIFT_JIS_2004'; </span><p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">initdb is
calledlike this:<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">    initdb -D
<data-dir>-L <input-dir> -E UTF8 --locale=C </span><p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">This is
Postgres8.4.4, the installation piece has been stable and always worked, but this time they have a new Red Hat 5.10
server<pclass="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># uname -a
</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Linux <hostname>
2.6.18-371.el5#1 SMP Thu Sep 5 21:21:44 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew""># cat /etc/redhat-release </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"CourierNew"">Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.10 (Tikanga) </span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">I am not sure if
thisis helpful, but just in case:<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""># ldd
euc_jis_2004_and_shift_jis_2004.so</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">   linux-vdso.so.1=> (0x00007fff259fd000) </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">   libc.so.6=> /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b3d5a756000) </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">   /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003848400000) </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">And these libs are softlinks:<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">/lib64/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.5.so</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-2.5.so</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">The only thought I have at this point is to run it with
strace,but maybe this is a known issue and someone has a better idea?<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">Thank
you,<pclass="MsoNormal">Michael.<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> <p
class="MsoNormal"> <pclass="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"> </div><p style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px
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