Thanks for the response. As it happens, I DID search the archives, but did not see this post. I saw a couple of related questions with no follow-up answers....
I am not running this under a separate username, so the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in my own .cshrc should apply, I would think. Does /etc/init.d/postgresql still need to be modified, even if there is no special postgresql user? - DAP -----Original Message----- From: Jim Seymour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Error running initdb "David Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to postgresql, first of all, and I'm not sure if this is the > correct list.... > > I have built 7.4.2 on Solaris 8/SPARC. I *think* "make install" > generated all the expected > artifacts. > > When I run initdb, I get the following output: > > % initdb -D /home/dparker/servers/install/data/testdb1 [snip] > creating conversions... ERROR: could not access file > "$libdir/ascii_and_mic": No such file or directory > > initdb: failed > > The ascii_and_mic.so is in $PREFIX/lib/postgresql. I've tried copying > it up one level, and also tried including that path in > LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The value for $libdir in config.status appears to be correct. > > I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious. Can somebody give me a > clue where to look? [snip] Had you searched the mailing list's archives, you would've seen this... | From jseymour Tue May 4 19:26:27 2004 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [ADMIN] initdb error | | "Kevin Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | > Hello, | > I'm trying to install PostgreSQL on Solaris 9. Everything's | > compiled properly but when I run initdb I get the following error: | > | [snip] | > creating conversions... ERROR: could not load library | > "/usr/local/pgsql/lib/ascii_and_mic.so": ld.so.1: | > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No | > such file or directory | > | > I found libgcc_s.so.1 in /usr/local/lib and that directory is in | > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Is there anything that I'm missing here or that I | > need to look for in my configure settings? | | Is that directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH when you're su'd to the | postgreSQL user? | | I added | | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib; export | LD_LIBRARY_PATH | | to /etc/init.d/postgresql and created a .profile in its home directory | with that in it. | | Solved all those problems :). | | You can also solve such problems by using the -R switch during build | (man ld) and with Solaris 8/9's new "crle" utility. Jim ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
