Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Vincent Maury's message of mar oct 26 10:17:36 -0300 2010: > Hello > > Thank you very much. > However, postgresql 8.4 can be installed on ubuntu 9.10 live cd. Why wouldn't > it work with 10.10 live cd? > I'm aware of RAM considerations, but my database is very light (a few hundred

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
Vincent Maury writes: > However, postgresql 8.4 can be installed on ubuntu 9.10 live cd. Why wouldn't > it work with 10.10 live cd? Either they changed the live CD to use a different filesystem that doesn't support O_DIRECT, or this is a kernel bug introduced since 9.10.

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-26 Thread Vincent Maury
Hello Thank you very much. However, postgresql 8.4 can be installed on ubuntu 9.10 live cd. Why wouldn't it work with 10.10 live cd? I'm aware of RAM considerations, but my database is very light (a few hundred records), so there is no problem running it on a liveUSB. Thank you very much in adva

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun oct 25 23:37:31 -0300 2010: >> If this really is caused by a WAL setting that's incompatible with the >> filesystem, maybe we should add a HINT. This makes two reports today, >> plus apparently at least one more on the Ubuntu sig

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-26 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun oct 25 23:37:31 -0300 2010: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: > > Hmm, my manpage says that open() could fail with EINVAL if O_DIRECT is > > used and not supported by the filesystem.  We use O_DIRECT in some > > wal_sync_method c

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-25 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Excerpts from VMaury's message of lun oct 25 15:44:01 -0300 2010: > >> This bug has been reported by someone else (in spanish): >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.4/+bug/658857 >> >> However, this install works perfect

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-25 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/26/2010 02:44 AM, VMaury wrote: 2010-10-25 08:45:56 UTC PANIC: could not open file "pg_xlog/0001" (log file 0, segment 0): Invalid argument This bug has been reported by someone else (in spanish): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.4/+bug/658857

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from VMaury's message of lun oct 25 15:44:01 -0300 2010: > This bug has been reported by someone else (in spanish): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.4/+bug/658857 > > However, this install works perfectly once Ubuntu is installed. > Why is there a difference betwe

[BUGS] BUG #5725: server couldn't start when installing on liveCD

2010-10-25 Thread VMaury
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5725 Logged by: VMaury Email address: vmaur...@yahoo.fr PostgreSQL version: 8.4 Operating system: Ubuntu 10.10 Description:server couldn't start when installing on liveCD Details: Hi, I tried to install postg