Thread: 8.4 initdb failure
I have tried every solution that I have found for this problem but cannot get PostgreSQL to install. I am currently trying with 8.4.1. The installer fails on several machines. After investigation, I see that its during the initdb section. I got it to install successfully once; I used the installer and it failed. Then I copied the data dir from a successful install and ran the installer again. But I can't get it to go in clean and I need to be able to replicate this many places. I've been trying to do it with the binary zip. But get the same errors. I've tried with the user have various privileges (including Administrators and not) and having various privis on the files in the install folder. But still can't get it to work. I have traced initdb with Process Monitor and include the output attached. http://old.nabble.com/file/p26157726/Logfile.XML Logfile.XML Note the errors: 'CreateFile' on initdb.exe.Manifest 'CreateFile' on initdb.exe.Config 'QueryNameInformationFile' initdb.exe BUFFER OVERFLOW I hope someone can recognize these. Please, Please, someone help!!! Here is the command-line output... cmd runas /user:testuser --> C:\temp>pgsql\bin\initdb.exe -d --pgdata=c:\temp\pgsql\data Running in debug mode. Running in debug mode. VERSION=8.4.1 PGDATA=c:/temp/pgsql/data share_path=C:/temp/pgsql/share PGPATH=C:/temp/pgsql/bin POSTGRES_SUPERUSERNAME=testuser POSTGRES_BKI=C:/temp/pgsql/share/postgres.bki POSTGRES_DESCR=C:/temp/pgsql/share/postgres.description POSTGRES_SHDESCR=C:/temp/pgsql/share/postgres.shdescription POSTGRESQL_CONF_SAMPLE=C:/temp/pgsql/share/postgresql.conf.sample PG_HBA_SAMPLE=C:/temp/pgsql/share/pg_hba.conf.sample PG_IDENT_SAMPLE=C:/temp/pgsql/share/pg_ident.conf.sample The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "testuser". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to WIN1252. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". creating directory c:/temp/pgsql/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 10 selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in c:/temp/pgsql/data/base/1 ... initdb: could not e xecute command ""C:/temp/pgsql/bin/postgres.exe" --boot -x1 -F -d 5": No error initdb: removing data directory "c:/temp/pgsql/data" -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/8.4-initdb-failure-tp26157726p26157726.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 3/11/2009 12:20 AM, joeweder wrote: > > I have tried every solution that I have found for this problem but cannot get > PostgreSQL to install. I am currently trying with 8.4.1. The installer fails > on several machines. After investigation, I see that its during the initdb > section. [snip] > I have traced initdb with Process Monitor and include the output attached. > http://old.nabble.com/file/p26157726/Logfile.XML Logfile.XML My copy of Process Monitor seems to want to open "PML" format logs, ie a custom procmon-specific format; it doesn't seem to be able to load its XML-format logs back into the procmon gui for review. Hand-reviewing the XML isn't fun :-( > creating template1 database in c:/temp/pgsql/data/base/1 ... initdb: could not execute command ""C:/temp/pgsql/bin/postgres.exe"--boot -x1 -F -d 5": No error That's a weird one. The procmon log confirms that "C:/temp/pgsql/bin/postgres.exe" does in fact exist, and it's run successfully elsewhere by the looks. I don't see "--boot" anywhere in the procmon log you sent, making me wonder if initdb ever actually got as far as the CreateProcess call and if it did, whether something's interefering with its ability to exec processes. That's wild stabbing in the dark, though, given that my brain just isn't up to properly reading and understanding thousands of lines of raw XML logs. The usual question: Got any antivirus or "security" software installed? -- Craig Ringer