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lithiumx

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Registered: 2017-12-28

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[SOLVED] Issue running PostgreSQL

I am trying to get Django running on my freshly installed Arch system, but I'm getting the following error when initializing the PostgreSQL's DB:

[atarak@anybus ~]$ su - postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"
Password: 
su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/lib/postgres: Permission denied
su: failed to execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Can anyone help me? I think it's valid to state that I've already tried the following commands:

[atarak@anybus ~]$ sudo chown postgres:postgres /var/lib/postgres/data
[atarak@anybus ~]$ sudo chmod 755 /var/lib/postgres/data

Last edited by lithiumx (2017-12-29 12:38:36)

heisenberg

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Registered: 2017-05-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue running PostgreSQL

I'm not an expert but I got it running in past, just following exactly what says the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … PostgreSQL)

I'm not sure that your command is equivalent. You should "initdb" as postgres user.

lithiumx

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Registered: 2017-12-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue running PostgreSQL

Thanks, your answer worked fine.

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Re: [SOLVED] Issue running PostgreSQL

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