Re: could not open process token: error code 5

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 6:42:39 am Andale wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have an Postgresql 8.2.5 installation on a Windows server 2003 that have
> worked perfectly for our Mediawiki until we tried to update to 8.4. Before
> the update we took a backup, stopped the service and took a copy of the
> entire database catalog. We could not make the 8.4 (installed in a
> different directory) work so we decided to go back to the initial
> installation which remained intact.
>
> Then when we try to start the service it fails and we get the message
> "could not open process token: error code 5" in the event viewer, nothing
> else. Now after googling for some hours and days I am stuck. the Postgres
> user are to start the service and so nothing is changed there either. Even
> though the database files were not changed, we have also copied the entire
> original database back. The installation has been done with the
> "postgresql-8.2-int.msi" package and it has been reapplied with the
> following command, "msiexec /i postgresql-8.2-int.msi REINSTALLMODE=vamus
> REINSTALL=ALL /"
>
> Still no progress.
>
> What to do?
>
> /Anders

Have you tried getting rid of the data directory you copied back, doing an
initdb to create a new fresh data directory and the restoring from the backup?
Just to cover the case where you did not copy everything you needed to when you
made the original copy.

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Adrian Klaver
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