Re: Bad system call error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)
On 1/13/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/13/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call $PGPATH/postgres Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? I wonder if this has become sufficiently frequent to merit addition to the FAQ. I've seen this question in various forms at least 4 times in the past three months (with two of those relating to PostgreSQL)... It's a good idea. Anyone want to suggest some wording? Found some great wording at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00039.html so it's up at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.ipc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Bad system call error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: Hello, When I try to initialise the postgresql database cluster with initdb it generates the following errors : $ initdb -D pgsql_data/ [snip] /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call $PGPATH/postgres -boo Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? I wonder if this has become sufficiently frequent to merit addition to the FAQ. I've seen this question in various forms at least 4 times in the past three months (with two of those relating to PostgreSQL)... Also, can anyone think of a way to emit a more informative Cygwin-specific error message (that mentions cygserver) whenever ENOSYS is returned?.. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Bad system call error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)
On 1/13/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call $PGPATH/postgres Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? I wonder if this has become sufficiently frequent to merit addition to the FAQ. I've seen this question in various forms at least 4 times in the past three months (with two of those relating to PostgreSQL)... It's a good idea. Anyone want to suggest some wording? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
