The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5430 Logged by: Jamie Strachan Email address: frostfr...@yahoo.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.3-2PGDG.el4 Operating system: CentOS 4 Description: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql Details:
Hello, Downloaded the following RPM: http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-4-i386/postgresql-server-8.4.3-2PGD G.el4.i386.rpm for my CentOS 4 install. service postgresql initdb fails with no error message. So, I su'd to postgres, and ran initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data --auth=ident which is what service postgresql initdb does. This command failed, with the error message: could not open directory "/usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets" I did a chown -R postgres:postgres /usr/share/pgsql and then it worked fine. Using rpm2cpio {file} | cpio -tv I see: drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Mar 17 16:21 ./usr/share/pgsql which is fine, however there is no specific entry for /usr/share/timezone. The post-install script doesn't seem to fix it, either. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
