Hi Mike, I've tried that. It works! Thanks a lot. Harry
"mike g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What version of postgres did you install? If it is 7.4.2 or later then > you must install the cygserver package and start that. ipc-daemon2 is > not being used anymore. > > Mike > On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:00, Harry wrote: > > Hi all, > > I install cygwin in my windows2000 so as to install postgresql. When I > > use the postgresql installed together with cygwin, I came into this problem: > > First, I run > > ipc-daemon2 & > > Second, when I try to initialize the database by running the following > > command, > > initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data > > I got some problem, here are the output > > .....(the above step is OK) > > creating configuration files... ok > > creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... Signal 12 > > initdb: failed > > I download the source code of postgresql (7.4.2) and compile it under the > > cygwin and run the above again. The same problem happens. Here are the > > output after running initdb. > > ........( The above is OK) > > creating configuration files... ok > > creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: > > semctl(35 > > , 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Invalid argument > > initdb: failed > > > > What shall I do with this problem? > > > > Thanks > > Harry > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org