Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with SMTP id QAA18731 for postgres-redist; Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:56:20 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199411180056.QAA18731@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.53]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with ESMTP id QAA18721 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:56:20 -0800 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.1B) with SMTP id QAA07435; Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:56:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199411180056.QAA07435@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) To: Ingo Jessel Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: learners request Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of 17 Nov 94 14:14:32+0100 <9411171314.AA00811@alfons.dkrz.de> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 16:56:03 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 16:56:20 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp Ingo Jessel writes: > I can create a new database as super-user postgres. > When I try the same thing as the created user, I get following message - > command% createdb foo > Creating database 'foo' . . . > E_DU3190_BAD_LKINIT > Couldn't initialize the locking system for this process. > Status returned was, 0x00000001. > Please insure that the process is properly installed and that > you have sufficient privilege and system resources to invoke it. > Creation of database 'foo' abnormally terminated. i am willing to bet that you have RTI/ASK/CA-INGRES installed somewhere and have that location ahead of the POSTGRES binaries in your path.. commercial INGRES also has a command called "createdb" (perhaps even more importantly, they also have a command called "destroydb" ;-) -- Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) | Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ==============================================================================