Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FC1B5DE2F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:18:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 90279-01-7 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:18:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1BE2B5DE8E for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:11:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Sep 2011 18:11:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [192.168.1.100]) [2.208.53.105] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 13 Sep 2011 20:11:35 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1200273 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18WKJhJ4u8WKLHfZg3ElthXakRqMudqCBqei/PtCh QuZssWtM4HClkH Message-ID: <4E6F9CD4.9000705@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:11:32 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gunthard_St=FCbs?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: exit code 139 performing initdb (pg 9.1 on linux) References: <4E6F7ED7.9050000@gmx.de> <8602.1315934756@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <8602.1315934756@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.789 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201109/83 X-Sequence-Number: 38320 Tom, thanks for your quick response. as mentioned the linux is rather old (~ 7 years) and i know that some software is not up to date. (but the admin has no time to update the entire system) i don't know what you mean with compiler options. if i enter gcc -v it lists: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.1/specs Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux) I rebuild pg with the settings you suggested. the bt dump is 1655 lines of hexcode and i am not sure whether i should post all here. it starts with: #0 0x00000009 in ?? () #1 0x00000000 in ?? () #2 0x0000e000 in ?? () #3 0x082676a1 in ?? () #4 0x00000009 in ?? () #5 0x00000000 in ?? () #6 0x00000000 in ?? () #7 0x0000e000 in ?? () #8 0x00000000 in ?? () #9 0x00000004 in ?? () #10 0x00000180 in ?? () #11 0x00000008 in ?? () #12 0x0853bd1c in ?? () and ends with #1648 0x6c2f7273 in ?? () #1649 0x6c61636f in ?? () #1650 0x7367702f in ?? () #1651 0x622f6c71 in ?? () #1652 0x702f6e69 in ?? () #1653 0x6774736f in ?? () #1654 0x00736572 in ?? () #1655 0x00000000 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0xc0000000 of course i will send you the full file. best regards, gunthard