Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@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