Thread: BUG #1357: Installation via Terminal Service

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1357
Logged by:          Winfried Maus
Email address:      wmaus@wmaus.net
PostgreSQL version: 8.0
Operating system:   Windows Server 2003
Description:        Installation via Terminal Service
Details:

When trying to install PostgreSQL 8.0.0 RC2 within a CONSOLE Terminal
Session, the installer prompts a dialog box, that PostgreSQL cannot be
installed using a terminal session but must be run from the console.

Since RDP Client 5.2 supports the /console switch to force a terminal
session into console mode which works fine with every other software I tried
to install, I consider this behaviour a bug in the PostgreSQL installer.

Merry x-mas and greetings from Germany. :-)

> The following bug has been logged online:
>=20
> Bug reference:      1357
> Logged by:          Winfried Maus
> Email address:      wmaus@wmaus.net
> PostgreSQL version: 8.0
> Operating system:   Windows Server 2003
> Description:        Installation via Terminal Service
> Details:=20
>=20
> When trying to install PostgreSQL 8.0.0 RC2 within a CONSOLE=20
> Terminal Session, the installer prompts a dialog box, that=20
> PostgreSQL cannot be installed using a terminal session but=20
> must be run from the console.
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> Since RDP Client 5.2 supports the /console switch to force a=20
> terminal session into console mode which works fine with=20
> every other software I tried to install, I consider this=20
> behaviour a bug in the PostgreSQL installer.
>=20
> Merry x-mas and greetings from Germany. :-)

I have seen this happen a couple of times, and it's because the
detection code in the installer is not working as it's supposed to. It's
based on an environment variable :-)
Log in using /console, start a cmd.exe prompt, run "set
SESSIONNAME=3DConsole", and then start the installer. That should help.

I've added a tracker for this to the foundry page - this needs a fix.

//Magnus