Bug 22465

Summary:	initb crash in postgresql-7.3.2 due no access in /tmp while initializing pg_shadow
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Castelão <castelao>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	PgSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	blocker	CC:	esigra
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Castelão 2003-06-08 17:47:39 UTC

Can t finish initdb in a postgresql-7.3.2 during first install.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge postgres
2. Change /etc/passwd in postgres from /bin/false to /bin/bash
3. ebuild  /var/db/pkg/dev-db/postgresql-7.3.2/postgresql-7.3.2.ebuild config
Actual Results:  
After step 3 receiving the message:

initializing pg_shadow... /usr/bin/initdb: line 628: cannot create temp file for
here document: Permission denied
initdb failed.



The problem is due no access to user postgres in /tmp directory, as as the   
ebuild....config
run a 
sudo - postgres ...
I resolved temporally including user postgres at group user and taking out after
initdb, but I don t believe that is a good final solution.

Comment 1 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-19 04:58:02 UTC

Shouldn't everyone have write access to /tmp?

Comment 2 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-19 06:37:36 UTC

works here