The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2497
Logged by: bruno Corbin
Email address: bc@sipco.fr
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4
Operating system: linux
Description: bug initdb
Details:

copying template1 to postgres ... FATAL: could not create file
"base/10793/1247": Input/output error

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bruno Corbin wrote:

> copying template1 to postgres ... FATAL: could not create file
> "base/10793/1247": Input/output error

This is a system-level error message. Probably the disk is bad, or the
cable, or the RAM, etc. See the kernel log for more information.

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"bruno Corbin" <bc@sipco.fr> writes:
> copying template1 to postgres ... FATAL: could not create file
> "base/10793/1247": Input/output error

You've got hardware problems :-( "Input/output error" is not a symptom
that a Postgres bug could produce.

regards, tom lane

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bruno corbin wrote:
> All my system is ok but my file systeme is reiserfs
>
> Is-it possible that it don't works with reiserfs ?

Not at all! It certainly works with Reiserfs and a ton other FSes. How
do you know your system is OK?


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvherre@commandprompt.com]
> Envoyé : lundi 26 juin 2006 21:44
> À : bruno Corbin
> Cc : pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
> Objet : Re: [BUGS] BUG #2497: bug initdb
>
>
> bruno Corbin wrote:
>
> > copying template1 to postgres ... FATAL: could not create file
> > "base/10793/1247": Input/output error
>
> This is a system-level error message. Probably the disk is bad, or the
> cable, or the RAM, etc. See the kernel log for more information.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera
> http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.


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