I can't access the site by typing the URI (ftp://ftp.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/releas e) into the installer. It timed out. I downloaded the whole tree.
That won't install either. The installer throws a fit (aka. an address exception) after showing strange chars in the install tree root and only a few leaves. Okay, so I installed the latest and greatest complete cygwin WITHOUT Postgres, installed the ipc-daemon (I can't get the one I had, so it's 1.13. I installed, got the usual (at least on my machine) mode 0000 for all binaries (?). Chmod'ed them to 2777 (I know that's unsecure). --install-as-service'd the ipc-daemon and verified that it ran. Started the installer from the cygwin site and thanks to the advise from Christopher ([EMAIL PROTECTED] , thank you very much!) installed from the copy of the tree ftp'ed from the site the Postgres (V 7.1.3). When I pg_start'ed Postgres it took 99% cpu; the usual sign that it does not find the ipc-daemon. I verified that the daemon ran. (It did). Chris send me a copy of 7.2.3 (identical to the version I had before). I installed from this version after completely uninstalling and physically removing the cygwin directory tree: Same result. Lastly I reinstalled with the latest version of postgres and voila, it ran like a pink rabbit. Uninstalling Postgres and installing any of the two prior versions resultet in 99% cpu from Postgres. My conclusion is that the ipc-daemon is the culprit and not backwards compatible to Postgres < 7.3, which does not make a whole lot of sense. There is NO version 1.10 of cygipc aka. ipc-daemon on http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/ available for download. Does anybody out there have either V1.10 of cygipc or a glue what is going so wrong with my install? guenter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Bowsher Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:46 AM To: günter strubinsky; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin archive? (previous versions for fallback) günter strubinsky wrote: > I had a previous release of cygwin running. It contained postgresql > 7.2.3. When I updated now, Postgresql version 7.3.2 was installed > which sadly requires a dump and restore of the 'old' database to > recognize the data. That I found out too late. My data can not be > accessed anymore. When I tried to download a previous version via > installer, the only version accessible is > 7.3.1 which doesn't go back early enough. > > I need to go back to a version that contains PostgreSQL 7.2.x or my > data is lost. > > I don't mind that the installer doesn't warn of release changes which > renders your data inaccessible, but I NEED to be able to go back > (only to dump my data so that it can't be reloaded with the brandnew > version. > > There must be a way to access an archive of 'older' cygwin > installation packages. One previous version, and that is *all*! Now, you happen to be in luck, since there was recently discussion about a mirror that seems to have stopped updating a month ago. ftp://ftp.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/release /postgresql/ still contains 7.2.{1,2,3} I emphasize this is pure *luck* that this mirror seems to have broken at a convenient time to save you a lot of trouble. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/