The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5680 Logged by: Alexey Parshin Email address: alex...@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 9.0.0 Operating system: Gentoo Linux Description: Failure to start: too many private dirs demanded Details:
PostgreSQL (fresh install) fails to start. The only message in the log file says: FATAL: too many private dirs demanded strace pg_ctl start -D/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data shows (tail): read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2570 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0xb77e4000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/pg_ctl-9. 0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/share/locale/en_AU.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/pg_ctl-9.0 .mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/pg_ctl-9.0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/pg_ctl-9.0.m o", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/pg_ctl-9.0.mo ", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/pg_ctl-9.0.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb77e4000 write(1, "server starting\n", 16server starting ) = 16 exit_group(0) = ? FATAL: too many private dirs demanded -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs