Thread: BUG #5567: will not install
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5567 Logged by: Denise Kanyuh Email address: kanyuh@us.ibm.com PostgreSQL version: 8.0.15 Operating system: AIX 7.1 Description: will not install Details: When trying to test our product which incorporates postgress on the newest release of AIX we get this error -- will AIX 7.1 be supported on any release of postgres? The installation failed at step: PostGreSOL Installation. For additional information, please review the log files stored in the archive: /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs.zip logs.zip include the initDB.out file which found a message: # pwd /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs/tbsm # more initDB.out Error: Unknown architecture for shared libraries #
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:13, Denise Kanyuh <kanyuh@us.ibm.com> wrote: > PostgreSQL version: 8.0.15 [ BTW the latest version of 8.0 is 8.0.25, also note 8.0 is getting EOL'ed within the next month or so, see http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1214 ] > When trying to test our product which incorporates postgress on the newest > release of AIX we get this error -- will AIX 7.1 be supported on any release > of postgres? Skimming http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/installation-platform-notes.html-- while it does not say anything specific about AIX 7.1, the biggest problems seem to be with old gcc versions. I would think if 7.1 ships with a decent version of gcc it will 'just work'. In any event you may want to give that page a look. > The installation failed at step: PostGreSOL Installation. > For additional information, please review the log files stored in the > archive: /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs.zip > logs.zip include the initDB.out file which found a message: > # pwd > /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs/tbsm > # more initDB.out > Error: Unknown architecture for shared libraries This looks like its coming from a 3rd party installer, my hunch is they do not ship binaries for AIX (7.1).
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:51, Denise Kanyuh <kanyuh@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Alex, > Yes -- I am aware that we are on an old release -- > > when you say - my hunch is > > they do not ship binaries for AIX (7.1). > > > what binaries are you taking about --- we use the same installer and files > on AIX 6.1 and it works -- it appears that there is something different in > AIX 7.1 -- either something that is not longer in the AIX 7.1 OS base (is > that what you where thinking) or someing in posgres that need to change to > accomidate this new OS? > Its this bit: >> The installation failed at step: PostGreSOL Installation. >> For additional information, please review the log files stored in the >> archive: /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs.zip Ive no idea what that the above is doing, it looks like some kind of installer... Given the error you seem to get "Unknown architecture for shared libraries", it sounds like its using precompiled binaries for a different architecture or older version of AIX. Again, Ive no idea as all that is hidden by the installer. I suspect if you can download the tarball and go through the ./configure && make dance and show us any errors you hit along the way, someone might be able to help... If you dont get any errors, then maybe showing us the output of: uname -a, gcc -v, (and on the resultant binaries) file initdb, ldd initdb. An strace (or ktrace, not sure what AIX has if any) of initdb may also be helpful. It might also be interesting to see what happens when you run initdb directly, the installers log file may be omitting something interesting. Im no AIX guy, but you have not provided nearly enough info for someone to help you :-(.
kanyuh@us.ibm.com ("Denise Kanyuh") writes:
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 5567
> Logged by: Denise Kanyuh
> Email address: kanyuh@us.ibm.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.0.15
> Operating system: AIX 7.1
> Description: will not install
> Details:
>
> When trying to test our product which incorporates postgress on the newest
> release of AIX we get this error -- will AIX 7.1 be supported on any release
> of postgres?
A significant portion of the problem likely relates to using a mighty
ancient version of PostgreSQL. Version 8.0 was effectively obsolesced
by 8.1 in 2005, some five years ago.
That's pretty relevant in two ways you should be concerned about:
1. Version 8.0 has been declared officially obsolete
<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy>
Issues with 8.0 are exceedingly unlikely to get fixed.
2. PostgreSQL Version 8.1 was the first version where AIX became
sufficiently supported to allow it to be tested on a regular
basis on the PostgreSQL Build Farm.
http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl
There were material changes to the build process introduced in
version 8.1 to allow substantially all parts of PostgreSQL
including contrib modules to compile and run on AIX.
I would not recommend wasting *any* time trying to rectify issues with a
five-year-old version of PostgreSQL; you should test the build process
with a version of PostgreSQL that is still supported.
--
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"Heuristics (from the French heure, "hour") limit the amount of time
spent executing something. [When using heuristics] it shouldn't take
longer than an hour to do something."
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:21, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote: > =C2=A02. =C2=A0PostgreSQL Version 8.1 was the first version where AIX bec= ame > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 sufficiently supported to allow it to be tested on a regular > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 basis on the PostgreSQL Build Farm. > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 http://pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 There were material changes to the build process introduced= in > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 version 8.1 to allow substantially all parts of PostgreSQL > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 including contrib modules to compile and run on AIX. Yeah I'll note we dont have any coverage of AIX on 8.0 and below. Even then we only seem to have coverage of AIX 5.3.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote: > Its this bit: >>> The installation failed at step: PostGreSOL Installation. >>> For additional information, please review the log files stored in the >>> archive: /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs.zip > Ive no idea what that the above is doing, it looks like some kind of > installer... The installer apparently isn't too smart, either, because the second-to-last name of our product is the 17th letter of the alphabet, not the 15th. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company
Alex, Yes -- I am aware that we are on an old release -- when you say - my hunch is they do not ship binaries for AIX (7.1). what binaries are you taking about --- we use the same installer and files on AIX 6.1 and it works -- it appears that there is something different in AIX 7.1 -- either something that is not longer in the AIX 7.1 OS base (is that what you where thinking) or someing in posgres that need to change to accomidate this new OS? thanks, Denise Denise Kanyuh kanyuh@us.ibm.com TBSM L3 Manager (919) 224-1997 Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> 07/22/2010 11:24 AM To Denise Kanyuh/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS cc pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #5567: will not install On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:13, Denise Kanyuh <kanyuh@us.ibm.com> wrote: > PostgreSQL version: 8.0.15 [ BTW the latest version of 8.0 is 8.0.25, also note 8.0 is getting EOL'ed within the next month or so, see http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1214 ] > When trying to test our product which incorporates postgress on the newest > release of AIX we get this error -- will AIX 7.1 be supported on any release > of postgres? Skimming http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/installation-platform-notes.html-- while it does not say anything specific about AIX 7.1, the biggest problems seem to be with old gcc versions. I would think if 7.1 ships with a decent version of gcc it will 'just work'. In any event you may want to give that page a look. > The installation failed at step: PostGreSOL Installation. > For additional information, please review the log files stored in the > archive: /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs.zip > logs.zip include the initDB.out file which found a message: > # pwd > /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip/logs/tbsm > # more initDB.out > Error: Unknown architecture for shared libraries This looks like its coming from a 3rd party installer, my hunch is they do not ship binaries for AIX (7.1).
On 07/22/2010 07:51 PM, Denise Kanyuh wrote: > > Alex, > Yes -- I am aware that we are on an old release -- any plans to upgrade? > > when you say - my hunch is > they do not ship binaries for AIX (7.1). > > what binaries are you taking about --- we use the same installer and > files on AIX 6.1 and it works -- it appears that there is something > different in AIX 7.1 -- either something that is not longer in the AIX > 7.1 OS base (is that what you where thinking) or someing in posgres that > need to change to accomidate this new OS? so you just copied the binary files over from AIX 6.1 .have you tried what happens when you actually compile on AIX 7.1? The filename in your "installers" error suggests that initdb fails - so what happens when you do a manual initdb with your binaries? On a different note - if IBM is using PostgreSQL on AIX internally you might want to consider providing buildfarm support on different AIX versions, that would help you and the community in supporting AIX. regards Stefan
On 07/23/2010 07:24 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > On 07/22/2010 07:51 PM, Denise Kanyuh wrote: >> >> Alex, >> Yes -- I am aware that we are on an old release -- > > any plans to upgrade? > >> >> when you say - my hunch is >> they do not ship binaries for AIX (7.1). >> >> what binaries are you taking about --- we use the same installer and >> files on AIX 6.1 and it works -- it appears that there is something >> different in AIX 7.1 -- either something that is not longer in the AIX >> 7.1 OS base (is that what you where thinking) or someing in posgres that >> need to change to accomidate this new OS? > > so you just copied the binary files over from AIX 6.1 .have you tried > what happens when you actually compile on AIX 7.1? > The filename in your "installers" error suggests that initdb fails - so > what happens when you do a manual initdb with your binaries? > > On a different note - if IBM is using PostgreSQL on AIX internally you > might want to consider providing buildfarm support on different AIX > versions, that would help you and the community in supporting AIX. That seems especially important in the light of AIX 7.1 not even beeing available/released yet so it is not really possible that the community can actually do any tests on that platform or even provide an estimation on what it would take to support it... Stefan