From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Niranjan Maturi (nmaturi)" <nmaturi(at)cisco(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Failed to run initdb: 128 |
Date: | 2010-03-04 11:53:40 |
Message-ID: | 9837222c1003040353j4cc75584tbc4e2ae1dab6e634@mail.gmail.com |
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2010/3/4 Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>:
> On 04/03/10 00:12, Niranjan Maturi (nmaturi) wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to install Postgres 8.2 on a virtual machine that has
>> Windown 2003 SP2. The installation fails with the error "Failed to run
>> initdb: 128". I searched the archives and looks like it is a catch-all
>> error. But is there anything specific that we can do to resolve this
>> issue?
>>
>> I am logged in as an administrator, so no problem with permissions.
>> Postgres was able to create the windows user account properly and after
>> that it fails with the above error. It tells us to copy a log file
>> initdb.log, but that file does not exist.
>
> It clearly didn't get that far in the process.
>
>> There is another log file pginstall.log, where I do see some error
>> messages, I printed them below. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Well, searching on error "2769" just seems to say a custom installer step failed. In this case clearly "GetAvailableLocales" - nothing unusual with your locale setup, is there?
No, that's not the probem. GetAvailableLocales() is the last step that
runs pre-installation. It has clearly moved past it.
If you get the initdb execution error, there should (hopefully) be a
separate log called (IIRC) initdb.log.
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