Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > initdb: directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" exists but is not empty > If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty > the directory "/var/lib/postgresql/data" or run initdb > with an argument other than "/var/lib/postgresql/data". > making '/gnu/store/byn534fg4agm0vv9szl5kkfl19n080b2-system' the current system... > Installation finished. No error reported. > ---- > > Postgresql doesn't run I’m not familiar with PostgreSQL, but perhaps you just need to do what the message above says? I’ve tested ‘postgresql-service’ in a pristine system with ‘guix system vm’ and it starts without any such message. So I guess there’s stale data in /var/lib/postgresql/data on your system? > and the error message still references the default config file. I don’t see any references to a config file in what you pasted. HTH, Ludo’.