sh.exe strip out \ ( or / ) and "cannot create nul:"

[jep]

initdb.exe from PostgreSQL apparently use sh.exe internally to initialize a new database structure.

Command line: initdb -E UTF8 -D D:/NLSTeam
Has worked in the past.

OS: ArcaOS 5

Version: PostgreSQL 8.2.5 b2
Output:
sh.exe: 1: cannot create nul:: Directory nonexistent
fgets failure: No such file or directory
The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as "D:/Programs/postgres/bin/initdb".
Check your installation.
Couldn't initalize database

Version: PostgreSQL 9.1.7
Output:
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 sv_SE.IBM-850.
could not determine encoding for locale "sv_SE.IBM-850": codeset is "IBM-850"
could not determine encoding for locale "sv_SE.IBM-850": codeset is "IBM-850"
The default text search configuration will be set to "swedish".

creating directory D:/NLSTeam ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
10
selecting default shared_buffers ... sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
sh.exe: 1: cannot open nul:: No such file
sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlbinpostgres.exe: not found
400kB
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in D:/NLSTeam/base/1 ... sh.exe: 1: D:Programspgsqlb
inpostgres.exe: not found
child process exited with exit code 127
initdb: removing data directory "D:/NLSTeam"
SYS1808:
The process has stopped. The software diagnostic
code (exception code) is 0005.
Couldn't initalize database

[jep]

Had a copy of the database and tried to start the engine, but pg_ctl.exe can't run either as it also depend on sh.exe

[Silvan Scherrer]

I would write to the postgreSQL maintainer direct. As I don't see any code of it at netlabs.

[Silvan Scherrer]

This is not sh issue per se. As sh works as it should. I bet it's s porting issue or such.

One thing you could try is to unset the current SHELL env value. Either by SET SHELL= or SET SHELL=cmd.exe and start the installation again on this session.

I close this issue, as we don't host postgreSQL here.