I also got the similar problem.
I executed this script.
su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=<PGDATA PATH>"
The PGDATA PATH I changed to some other path. The script created all the necessary files there. I edited the /etc/init.d/postgres and changed the data directory path to the new path. I started the server using comand
/etc/init.d/postgres start
It started fine
Hope this helps
Regards
Sreejith
mailto:sreejith@marlabs.com
Marlabs
