I'm running ubuntu 8.04 on
a Linux 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 19:35:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
machine.
there was same porblem with preinstalation of progres and superuser.
So I tried to solve it by reinstall postgres 8.3 with apt-get after removing
it with
sudo apt-get --purge r
Thank you very very much Vladimir,
I was just starting to port my db to mysql.
You saved me and our project :)
> Also, check /etc/passwd permissions, it should be something like -rw-r--r--
My permissions of /etc/passwd was set to -rw---
I changed it to -rw-r--r-- and initdb works now
