this is a goofy situtation. we had a new linux 2.4.4 kernel with a /tmp not writable by postgres. granted, this is categorically hosed, but initdb still dumped core under these circumstances. changing the /tmp to writable immediately fixed the problem. -j ===== John Scott Senior Partner August Associates web: http://www.august.com/~jmscott email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
