title: Nominatim europe import
body: <p>I've looked at previous posts on this topic but couldn't understand why the import process died. Therefore I cannot start it again until I understand what the errors in the log mean. (import took 12 days)</p>
  
  <p>here's the famous nominatim setup log</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE TABLE
  CREATE TABLE
  CREATE TYPE
  Import
  osm2pgsql version 0.93.0-dev (64 bit id space)
  
  Using projection SRS 4326 (Latlong)
  NOTICE:  table "place" does not exist, skipping
  Allocating memory for dense node cache
  Allocating dense node cache in one big chunk
  Allocating memory for sparse node cache
  Sharing dense sparse
  Node-cache: cache=2800MB, maxblocks=44800*65536, allocation method=11
  Mid: loading persistent node cache from /srv/nominatim/data/flatnode.file
  Mid: pgsql, cache=2800
  Setting up table: planet_osm_nodes
  Setting up table: planet_osm_ways
  Setting up table: planet_osm_rels
  
  Reading in file: /srv/nominatim/data/europe-latest.osm.pbf
  Using PBF parser.
  Processing: Node(1916319k 644.1k/s) Way(234287k 0.25k/s) Relation(3519490 21.55/s)  parse time: 1109177s
  Node stats: total(1916319008), max(4937556462) in 2975s
  Way stats: total(234287257), max(503447033) in 942887s
  Relation stats: total(3519494), max(7358761) in 163315s
  Setting up table: planet_osm_nodes
  Setting up table: planet_osm_ways
  Setting up table: planet_osm_rels
  
  Going over pending ways...
          0 ways are pending
  
  Using 1 helper-processes
  Finished processing 0 ways in 0 s
  
  
  Going over pending relations...
          0 relations are pending
  
  Using 1 helper-processes
  Finished processing 0 relations in 0 s
  
  Stopping table: planet_osm_nodes
  Stopped table: planet_osm_nodes in 0s
  Stopping table: planet_osm_ways
  Stopped table: planet_osm_ways in 0s
  Stopping table: planet_osm_rels
  Building index on table: planet_osm_rels
  ERROR: Error executing external command: /srv/nominatim/Nominatim/build/osm2pgsql/osm2pgsql --flat-nodes /srv/nominatim/data/flatnode.file -lsc -O gazetteer --hstore --number-processes 1 -C 2800 -P 5432 -d nominatim /srv/nominatim/data/europe-latest.osm.pbf
  Error executing external command: /srv/nominatim/Nominatim/build/osm2pgsql/osm2pgsql --flat-nodes /srv/nominatim/data/flatnode.file -lsc -O gazetteer --hstore --number-processes 1 -C 2800 -P 5432 -d nominatim /srv/nominatim/data/europe-latest.osm.pbf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone help?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>