From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26741 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2003 11:55:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26716 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 11:55:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-out.comcast.net) (24.153.64.115) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2003 11:55:44 -0000 Received: from althea (pcp04244714pcs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net [68.36.183.225]) by mtaout02.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HG7004NLQGVKX@mtaout02.icomcast.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:55:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=althea.tishler.net) by althea with smtp (Exim 4.12) id HG7QKA-000138-00; Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:57:46 -0400 Received: by althea.tishler.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:57:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:55:00 -0000 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: help! In-reply-to: <20030606212620.13285.qmail@web80512.mail.yahoo.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?= Touodop Cc: Cygwin Mail-followup-to: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Val=E9ry?= Touodop , Cygwin Message-id: <20030609115745.GE1980@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <20030606212620.13285.qmail@web80512.mail.yahoo.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00506.txt.bz2 Valéry, Please post instead of sending private email. On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:26:20PM +0200, Valéry Touodop wrote: > I'm facing a problem when instlling Postgres 7.2.1 on Window Me. after > the complete setup when I'm trying to start the database (initdb), the > following error occurs : > > C:\PGSQL\POSTGRES_BETA4\PG_ID.EXE could not retrieve the name of the > current user Error Code=1245 > > initdb could not determine current user name; The above indicates that your Cygwin environment is not set up correctly. > How can I solve this? Running mkpasswd and/or mkgroup should help. > Thank U for helping me You are welcome. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/