Re: New installation of 8.0 Beta1 Failed to create process for initdb: 1385

Like I said, the "postgres" user id is there.

If that doesn't mean it was created "successfully", what would I look for to
know for sure?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike G [mailto:mike(at)thegodshalls(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:07 AM
> To: Chris Means
> Cc: 'Mike G'; pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] New installation of 8.0 Beta1 Failed to
> create process for initdb: 1385
>
> Ok,
>
> Did the installation successfully create the user account postgres?
>
> That is the account that initdb runs under. Not sure if it
> automatically deletes it if the install fails.
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:58:17PM -0500, Chris Means wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > Thanks for the response:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > > [mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Mike G
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:31 PM
> > > To: Chris Means
> > > Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > > Subject: Re: [NOVICE] New installation of 8.0 Beta1
> Failed to create
> > > process for initdb: 1385
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > > Any ideas what's wrong?
> > > Make sure you have administrative rights and not just a
> power user.
> >
> > I'm confident that I have administrative rights, but to be
> sure that
> > that wasn't the issue, I logged in as the Administrator,
> and received
> > exactly the same error.
> >
> > FYI: The "NT Service" userid "postgres" wasn't removed during the
> > rollback, so future installs failed early until I removed
> the previous
> > configured user id.
> >
> > > >
> > > > Are there log files anywhere for me to look at?
> > > Check the event viewer in windows.
> >
> > Nothing additional there, just the same error message.
> >
> > -Chris
>