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To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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Subject: Re: postgresql build failure on SMP machine
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Steve Passe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > In trying to install the postgresql port the install fails with the
> > > following...
> > >
> > > initdb: creating template database in
> > > /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
> > > Running: postgres -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -Q template1
> > > Failed Assertion("!VfdCache[0].lruMoreRecently != 0):(null)", File:
> > > "fd.c", Line:
> > > 389)
> > > !(VfdCache[0].lruMoreRecently != 0) (0)
> > > Abort trap - core dumped
> > > initdb: could not create template database
> > > initdb: cleaning up by wiping out /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop.
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop.
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop.
> > >
> > > The system is -current (SMP) as of 4 PM  5/18
> 
> I don't know anything about postgres, but my guess is that there is a race
> going on here.  is there more than 1 process involved in the above?
> Am I correct in believing that if you dont start the 2nd CPU it will work
> OK?
> 
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I built a UP kernel on the SMP machine and boot to it.  Incurred the
same problem.  I'll try not starting the 2nd CPU tonite when I get home
and see what happens.  

BTW Marc, I grabbed the PostgreSQL 6.1 sources from ftp.postgresql.org 
as you suggested.  I don't remember the exact error messages but 970520
didn't compile so I grabbed 970515.  It built fine but when I ran initdb
it complained that it couldn't find it's library.  I ran ldconfig and
then
initdb again.  This time it hung with the follwing...

Running: postgres -boot -C -F -D/usr/local/pgsql/data -Q template1

After 5 minutes I did a ^C and the machine promptly crashed.  I couldn't
read the exact panic msg as it went by too fast.  It rebooted, fscked
the
disk and came up OK but no database.  I'll try to mess with it more
tonite
when I get home.

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Randall D DuCharme       
Systems Engineer      
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