initdb failure with Postgres 8.4.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Initdb fails for me when host machine has no access to the Postgres
buildlocation.<p class="MsoNormal">  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">LOG:  could not open
directory.../install/share/timezone": No such file or directory</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">LOG:  could not open directory .../install/share/timezone": No such file or
directory</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">WARNING:  could not open directory
.../install/share/timezonesets":No such file or directory</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">HINT: This may indicate an incomplete PostgreSQL installation, </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">       or that the file .../bin.Linux/postgres" has been moved away from its proper
location.</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">FATAL:  invalid value for parameter
"timezone_abbreviations":"Default"</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">DEBUG: 
shmem_exit(1):0 callbacks to make</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">DEBUG: 
proc_exit(1):0 callbacks to make</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">DEBUG: 
exit(1)</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">The postgres
executableis in the proper place.<p class="MsoNormal">The truncated paths .../install/share/timezone, etc point to the
originalbuild location.<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">The
timezoneand other files  are available in the local directory:<span style="font-family:"Courier New""></span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-family:"Courier New"">share % ls -1</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">conversion_create.sql</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">information_schema.sql</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">pg_hba.conf.sample</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">pg_ident.conf.sample</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">pg_service.conf.sample</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">postgres.bki</span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-family:"Courier New"">postgres.description</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">postgresql.conf.sample</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">postgres.shdescription</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">psqlrc.sample</span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-family:"Courier New"">recovery.conf.sample</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">snowball_create.sql</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">sql_features.txt</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">system_views.sql</span><p
class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font-family:"Courier New"">timezone</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">timezonesets</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">tsearch_data</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">I
callinitdb with the –L option pointing to that directory, from initdb log I can see that it is indeed being used for
certainthings –<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">POSTGRES_BKI=.../share/postgres.bki</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">POSTGRES_DESCR=.../share/postgres.description</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">POSTGRES_SHDESCR=.../share/postgres.shdescription</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier
New"">POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=.../share/postgresql.conf.sample</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">PG_HBA_SAMPLE=.../share/pg_hba.conf.sample</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew"">PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=.../share/pg_ident.conf.sample</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"CourierNew""> </span><p class="MsoNormal">I am wondering why the timezone files cannot be found
thereas well?<p class="MsoNormal">This is quite urgent and any help will be greatly appreciated.<p
class="MsoNormal">Michael.<pclass="MsoNormal">.<p class="MsoNormal"><br /><br /></div><p style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN:
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