Re: [Users] About owner of postgres

From: "Juan Hernandez" <jhernand(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Stephen Liu" <satimis(a)yahoo.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:01:06 PM Subject: Re: [Users] About owner of postgres On 11/10/2012 04:49 PM, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Juan and all, > > I follow; > Building Engine Draft > http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Building_Engine_Draft > to install oVirt from source on Fedora 17, 64bit > > > 1) > Found following error; > $ unzip jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.tar.gz > > It should read; > $ unzip jboss-as-7.1.1.Final.zip Thanks for pointing this out, I just fixed it. > 2) > I was stuck here; > > # su - postgres -c 'pg_ctl initdb' > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "postgres". > This user must also own the server process. > > The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF-8. > The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8. > The default text search configuration will be set to "english". > > initdb: directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" exists but is not empty > If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty > the directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" or run initdb > with an argument other than "/var/lib/pgsql/data". > pg_ctl: database system initialization failed > > > I'm not the owner of postgres > > What shall I do? Assuming that you don't have the data of any other application in that PostgreSQL instance I would remove it completely and then create it again running the following commands as root: systemctl stop postgresql.service rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql postgresql-setup initdb systemctl start postgresql.service That will give you a clean instance of PosrgreSQL that you can use for the ovirt-engine installation.

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