Hi, I have cloned a fresh pg9.2 from github release 7c0fecd and compiled it with
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-openssl && make && make install The compilation went like a charm in a LXC container running a debian 6.0 with following kernel Linux java 3.0.0-21-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 25 17:58:20 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux (system that hosts the LXC is an ubuntu). I have successfuly run initdb and pg_ctl launched the database server as usual. When I wanted to use any client to the database (psql, createdb), they segfaulted whatever I used the TCP/IP or unix socket, all with « trust » authentication in the pg_hba.conf. Here is a ldd of the psql binary : $ ldd ~/local/bin/psql linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00376000) libpq.so.5 => /home/greg/local/lib/libpq.so.5 (0x008e7000) libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x00ecd000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00c7b000) libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00443000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00110000) libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00a32000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00843000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x00129000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00281000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x0077d000) Here is an excerpt of strace's output from the psql segfault (last lines) $ strace -s 400 ~/local/bin/psql ... stat64("/home/greg/.pgpass", 0xbfcdd3c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"}, 110) = 0 getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [4]) = 0 getsockname(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, NULL}, [2]) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT|POLLERR}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) send(3, "\0\0\0L\0\3\0\0user\0greg\0database\0greg\0application_name\0psql\0client_encoding\0UTF8\0\0", 76, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 76 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}]) recv(3, "R\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\0E\0\0\0RSFATAL\0C3D000\0Mdatabase \"greg\" does not exist\0Fpostinit.c\0L718\0RInitPostgres\0\0", 16384, 0) = 92 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Segmentation fault I know database greg does not exist. This segfaults also when I try to connect to the template1 database: ... stat64("/home/greg/.pgpass", 0xbfc56c80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"}, 110) = 0 getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [4]) = 0 getsockname(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, NULL}, [2]) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT|POLLERR}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}]) send(3, "\0\0\0Q\0\3\0\0user\0greg\0database\0template1\0application_name\0psql\0client_encoding\0UTF8\0\0", 81, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 81 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}]) recv(3, "R\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\0S\0\0\0\32application_name\0psql\0S\0\0\0\31client_encoding\0UTF8\0S\0\0\0\27DateStyle\0ISO, MDY\0S\0\0\0\31integer_datetimes\0on\0S\0\0\0\33IntervalStyle\0postgres\0S\0\0\0\24is_superuser\0on\0S\0\0\0\31server_encoding\0UTF8\0S\0\0\0\34server_version\0009.3devel\0S\0\0\0\37session_authorization\0greg\0S\0\0\0#standard_conforming_strings\0on\0S\0\0\0\21TimeZone\0UTC\0K\0\0\0\f\0\0I\4\177a\3119Z\0\0\0\5I", 16384, 0) = 321 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Segmentation fault Is there anything I did wrong ? Regards, -- Grégoire HUBERT -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs