Isaac Morland <isaac.morl...@gmail.com> writes: > I've built Postgres inside a Ubuntu Vagrant VM. When I try to "make check", > I get a complaint about the permissions on the data directory:
> vagrant@ubuntu-focal:/vagrant$ tail /vagrant/src/test/regress/log/initdb.log > creating subdirectories ... ok > selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix > selecting default max_connections ... 20 > selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB > selecting default time zone ... Etc/UTC > creating configuration files ... ok > running bootstrap script ... 2021-03-30 21:38:32.746 UTC [23154] FATAL: > data directory "/vagrant/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data" has invalid > permissions > 2021-03-30 21:38:32.746 UTC [23154] DETAIL: Permissions should be u=rwx > (0700) or u=rwx,g=rx (0750). > child process exited with exit code 1 Further up in initdb.log, there was probably some useful information about whether it found an existing directory there or not. regards, tom lane