Thread: BUG #8583: I can't install this product
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 8583 Logged by: Igor Gladchenko Email address: gladchenkoigor@hotmail.com PostgreSQL version: 9.3.1 Operating system: Windows XP SP3 Description: can't install this product. When I run setup I get the following message: "There has been an error. Unable to write inside the TEMP environment variable path". I have the following environment variables: Temp=C:\Temp Tmp=C:\Tmp. What to do?
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:30 PM, <gladchenkoigor@hotmail.com> wrote: > can't install this product. When I run setup I get the following message: > "There has been an error. > Unable to write inside the TEMP environment variable path". > I have the following environment variables: Temp=C:\Temp > Tmp=C:\Tmp. > What to do? I abandoned windows due to xp, but I will suggest you test a couple of things: 1.- Do the directories c:\Tmp and c:\Temp exist, and are they world-writable? 2.- Are windows environment variables case sensitive? ( I do not remeber how the cmd shell used env vars, I think you can test it using somethhing like SET a=1, SET A=2, echo %a, echo %A ). If they are you will need TEMP. I cannot suggest many more things, but it seems more like pilot error than a bug. Maybe an installer bug, but I think people who knows it would need at least to know which installer you are using, I think there are more than one for windows. I'll suggest you read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/bug-reporting.html and try to give some more details. Francisco Olarte.
Hi Is the user that is installing the product has Admin rights? On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:00 PM, <gladchenkoigor@hotmail.com> wrote: > The following bug has been logged on the website: > > Bug reference: 8583 > Logged by: Igor Gladchenko > Email address: gladchenkoigor@hotmail.com > PostgreSQL version: 9.3.1 > Operating system: Windows XP SP3 > Description: > > can't install this product. When I run setup I get the following message: > "There has been an error. > Unable to write inside the TEMP environment variable path". > I have the following environment variables: Temp=C:\Temp > Tmp=C:\Tmp. > What to do? > > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs > -- Sandeep Thakkar
On 11/7/2013 9:43 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote: > 1.- Do the directories c:\Tmp and c:\Temp exist, and are they world-writable? I might note, neither of those directories exist by default. my win7 system has TEMP set to C:\Users\pierce\AppData\Local\Temp I'm not sure anything uses TMP anymore. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast