Thread: Fwd: Unable to Install - "unable to write inside TEMP environment variable path"

------------ Forwarded message ------------
From: Wei <wei725@lycos.com>
Date: May 20, 2011
Subject: [GENERAL] Unable to Install - "unable to write inside TEMP environment variable path"
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org


When I install the 9.0.x version on my Window Visita Laptop, I get the error. The "Windows Scripting Host" is up. So it
isnot the topic of this article: http://1stopit.blogspot.com/2011/01/postgresql-83-and-84-fails-to-install.html 


How to resolve this problem?


Thanks.


- w

Can anyone help? <br /><br /><p>On May 20, 2011, <strong>Wei</strong> <wei725@lycos.com> wrote:<div
class="replyBody"><blockquoteclass="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex;
padding-left:1ex;"><br /><br /><br />------------ Forwarded message ------------<br />From: Wei <<a
class="parsedEmail"href="mailto:wei725@lycos.com" target="_blank">wei725@lycos.com</a>><br />Date: May 20, 2011<br
/>Subject:[GENERAL] Unable to Install - "unable to write inside TEMP environment variable path"<br />To: <a
class="parsedEmail"href="mailto:pgsql-general@postgresql.org" target="_blank">pgsql-general@postgresql.org</a><br /><br
/><br/>When I install the 9.0.x version on my Window Visita Laptop, I get the error. The "Windows Scripting Host" is
up.So it is not the topic of this article: <a class="parsedLink"
href="http://1stopit.blogspot.com/2011/01/postgresql-83-and-84-fails-to-install.html"
target="_blank">http://1stopit.blogspot.com/2011/01/postgresql-83-and-84-fails-to-install.html</a><br/><br /><br />How
toresolve this problem?<br /><br /><br />Thanks.<br /><br /><br />- w<br /><br />-- <br />Sent via pgsql-general
mailinglist (<a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:pgsql-general@postgresql.org"
target="_blank">pgsql-general@postgresql.org</a>)<br/>To make changes to your subscription:<br /><a class="parsedLink"
href="http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general"
target="_blank">http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general</a><br/></blockquote></div> 

On 22 May 2011, at 24:08, Wei wrote:

> Can anyone help?

According to the error message there's a problem with your TEMP directory, as specified in the %TEMP% environment
variable.Perhaps the postgres user isn't allowed to write there or the disk is full. Something like that. 

Alban Hertroys

--
If you can't see the forest for the trees,
cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.


!DSPAM:737,4dd94d7711929271551138!

On 05/22/11 10:52 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote:
>> Can anyone help?
> According to the error message there's a problem with your TEMP directory, as specified in the %TEMP% environment
variable.Perhaps the postgres user isn't allowed to write there or the disk is full. Something like that. 

note too, thats the %TEMP% variable in the context of the service, NOT
neccessarily the desktop's %TEMP% ... this is not easy to get at and
view or modify in Windows.




--
john r pierce                            N 37, W 123
santa cruz ca                         mid-left coast

On 22/05/2011 6:08 AM, Wei wrote:
> Can anyone help?

Please don't just forward a message you already sent to re-post it. Most
people will ignore it, as you discovered.

Make the minimal effort required to say "I asked this earlier and didn't
hear back. I've done a bunch of Google searching, haven't had any luck
finding the answer, and am really stuck. Would anyone mind taking a
moment to have a look? Here's a detailed list of what I've tried to do."

Yes, that requires doing some work for yourself. A quick search should
have found information including this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5224042/postgresql-9-install-on-winxp-unable-to-write-inside-temp-environment-path

and this:

   http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Installation

and of course this:

   http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems

... all of which would've helped you ask a question with enough
information that someone could actually help you - or answer it yourself.

--
Craig Ringer

Tech-related writing at http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/