Hello !

I'm using postgres quiet succsessfully on RedHat 6.2

I tried to install PostgresQL on the distribution Gentoo
(aviable for free from www.gentoo.org) because I
was curious how PostgresQL would perform on a
2.4.0 based linux system with ReiserFs as file system.
(I tested also with 2.4.1-pre8 kernel with the same results)

All compiled nicely (I used the tarball source version 
7.1beta3, i didn't gave any parameters to configure), 
but i could not run initdb like in my privious 
installations under RedHat 6.2.

This is what happend:

bash-2.04# rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/*
bash-2.04# su postgres
bash-2.04$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql
This database system will be initialized with username "postgres".
This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process.

Fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/pgsql
Creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/base
Creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/global
Creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/pg_xlog
Creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/base/1
DEBUG:  starting up
DEBUG:  database system was shut down at 2001-01-22 12:36:25
DEBUG:  CheckPoint record at (0, 8)
DEBUG:  Redo record at (0, 8); Undo record at (0, 8); Shutdown TRUE
DEBUG:  NextTransactionId: 514; NextOid: 16384
DEBUG:  database system is in production state
ERROR:  Error: unknown type 'ame'.

Creating global relations in /var/lib/pgsql/global
DEBUG:  starting up
DEBUG:  database system was interrupted at 2001-01-22 12:36:25
DEBUG:  CheckPoint record at (0, 8)
DEBUG:  Redo record at (0, 8); Undo record at (0, 8); Shutdown TRUE
DEBUG:  NextTransactionId: 514; NextOid: 16384
DEBUG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in 
progress...
FATAL 2:  cannot open pg_log: No such file or directory

initdb failed.
Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.8499.
bash-2.04$

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:47:46 +0100
Robert Schrem <robert.schrem@WiredMinds.de>
Strange initdb error with kernel 2.4: unknown type 'ame'.