I have posted the bug to the RPM maintainers, over at Command Prompt. So, 5430 can be closed.
This is affecting my CentOS 4 release. (I have to support RHEL/CentOS 4, 5, and some others too.) [r...@isotest ~]# more /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3) [r...@isotest ~]# rpm -e postgresql-server [r...@isotest ~]# rm -fr /usr/share/pgsql/ [r...@isotest ~]# rpm -i postgresql-server-8.4.3-2PGDG.el4.i386.rpm warning: postgresql-server-8.4.3-2PGDG.el4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8e345b8 [r...@isotest ~]# ls -ld /usr/share/pgsql/timezone drwxr-x--- 19 root root 4096 Apr 20 16:27 /usr/share/pgsql/timezone [r...@isotest ~]# ls -ld /usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets/ drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Apr 20 16:27 /usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets/ other is denied access. Thanks, Jamie Strachan. ----- Original Message ---- From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <dev...@gunduz.org> To: Jamie Strachan <frostfr...@yahoo.com> Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 3:38:05 PM Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5430: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql Hi, On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:22 +0000, Jamie Strachan wrote: > > 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" Cannot reproduce it on my 8.4+CentOS 4 box: -bash-3.00$ initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data --auth=ident ... Success. You can now start the database server using: ... timezonesets directory has already *enough* permissions for postgres user to read it: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-19 09:45 timezonesets Are you sure that you did not chmod somewhere between installing package and initdb'ing? Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer PostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
