That's right, I installed 6.4 on Solaris 7 with no problem.
What is the deal with 6.5.1 ??
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Donald D. Bustamante wrote:
> Dmitri Schekin wrote:
> >
> > I have tried to install the PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on Solaris 7, but I think the
> > installation
> > wasn't done correctly. Firstly, in INSTALLATION step 14 it says that the
> > last line in file make.install.log is
> >
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pgsql/src/man'
> >
> > However in my make.install.log it is
> >
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dgchtch/pgsql/src/pl'
> >
> > and directory /usr/src/pgsql/src/man is never mentioned in
> > make.install.log.
> > Secondly, step 9 of the installation says:
> > $ su
> > $ cd /usr/src
> > $ mkdir pgsql
> > $ chown postgres:postgres pgsql
> > Is this important ? I don't have superuser priveleges so I can't do 'su'
> > command.
> > Can these explain my problem ?
> > Dmitri
> >
> > L J Bayuk wrote:
> >
> > > dgchtch@emory.edu wrote:
> > > >Hello!
> > > >
> > > >When I run first createdb I get:
> > > >
> > > >>Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> > > >>createdb: database creation failed on dgchtch.
> > > >
> > > >The postmaster gives following debug info:
> > > >
> > > >/home/dgchtch/pgsql/bin/postmaster: BackendStartup: pid 28832 user
> > > >dgchtch
> > > >db template1 socket 4
> > > >FindExec: found "/home/dgchtch/pgsql/bin/postgres" using argv[0]
> > > >started: host=localhost user=dgchtch database=template1
> > > >InitPostgres
> > > >pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
> > > >proc_exit(0) [#0]
> > > >shmem_exit(0) [#0]
> > > >exit(0)
> > > >/home/dgchtch/pgsql/bin/postmaster: reaping dead processes...
> > > >/home/dgchtch/pgsql/bin/postmaster: CleanupProc: pid 28832 exited with
> > > >status 0
> > >
> > > Something is very broken, but you know that already. It looks to me
> > > like createdb is the cause, and the backend "pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF"
> > > is just a result. createdb is just a shell script around psql, so try
> > > "psql template1" and see if that crashes too. If you repost, please
> > > include PostgreSQL version and platform you are running on. Did you
> > > build it, or are you using a binary distribution?
>
>
> We tried installing 6.5.1 on Solaris 7--it's buggy. We finally
> installed 6.4, which installed error-free.
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