Thread: BUG #3981: Can not Install PostgreSQL - error at the end of installation

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      3981
Logged by:          Miroslav Nachev
Email address:      miro@space-comm.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.3, 8.2
Operating system:   Windows Vista Ultimate
Description:        Can not Install PostgreSQL - error at the end of
installation
Details:

I try many times to install PostgreSQL 8.3 and older versions on my new
mobile computer Acer AS7720G-933G64Bn with installed Windows Vista Ultimate
OS. Unfortunately it is not possible. In the beginning I have one error.
After User Account Control (UAC) disabling the error is changed to "Failed
to create temporary directory." on "Initializing database cluster (...)...".
I can apply the  log file of installation if you tell me how and where?

Can you give me some idea how to solve that problem?

Hi Miroslav,

> I try many times to install PostgreSQL 8.3 and older versions on my new
> mobile computer Acer AS7720G-933G64Bn with installed Windows Vista Ultimate
> OS. Unfortunately it is not possible. In the beginning I have one error.
> After User Account Control (UAC) disabling the error is changed to
> "Failed to create temporary directory."
I also have this problem on one computer with Windows XP SP2.
But only with 8.3; 8.2 installation works perfectly.
I could not find any reason- the logfile does not tell what's really going wrong...
(and the only thing which the error dialog says was "an error occured" - nothing else)

I solved it by not initializing the database (I did it afterwards by hand).

Sorry, if this is not very helpful for you - but that was the only thing I could do on that computer for running 8.3

with regards,
Matthias

Is there any script for manually initializing or installing. Something
like BAT file? If BAT file works this is better than GUI Setup which
doesn't works.


Miro.

Matthias Mohr wrote:
> Hi Miroslav,
>
>> I try many times to install PostgreSQL 8.3 and older versions on my new
>> mobile computer Acer AS7720G-933G64Bn with installed Windows Vista
>> Ultimate
>> OS. Unfortunately it is not possible. In the beginning I have one error.
>> After User Account Control (UAC) disabling the error is changed to
>> "Failed to create temporary directory."
> I also have this problem on one computer with Windows XP SP2.
> But only with 8.3; 8.2 installation works perfectly.
> I could not find any reason- the logfile does not tell what's really
> going wrong...
> (and the only thing which the error dialog says was "an error occured"
> - nothing else)
>
> I solved it by not initializing the database (I did it afterwards by
> hand).
>
> Sorry, if this is not very helpful for you - but that was the only
> thing I could do on that computer for running 8.3
>
> with regards,
> Matthias
>