Re: postgresql Installation failed Error changing group of /opt/PostgreSQL to daemon

Thanks Holger for your response
OS is Suse LINUX
using root user to install
Daemon user already created
I am using below command to install.
/postgresql-10.11-3-linux-x64.run --mode text

On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:50 PM Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You give no information about the kind of installer and platform you have
> used.
>
> The PostgreSQL community provides the source code and some packages for
> Linux distributions, but what you show doen't look like any of these. They
> usually don't install to /opt
>
> Which installer (where did you get it from) did you use on which platform?
>
> Which user was doing the installation (root?).
>
> The installer obviously wanted to change the group owner of a directory to
> the user daemon. In order to succeed, this has to be carried out by root
> and a user named daemon must exist.
>
> That's what I can tell without further information.
>
> Regards,
>
> Holger
> Am 08.05.20 um 07:04 schrieb Ayaansh Chawla:
>
> Pre Installation Summary
>
> The following settings will be used for the installation::
>
> Installation Directory: /opt/PostgreSQL/10 Server Installation Directory:
> /opt/PostgreSQL/10 Data Directory: /opt/PostgreSQL/10/data Database Port:
> 5432 Database Superuser: postgres Operating System Account: postgres
> Database Service: postgresql-10 Command Line Tools Installation Directory:
> /opt/PostgreSQL/10
>
> Press [Enter] to continue:
> ------------------------------
>
> Setup is now ready to begin installing PostgreSQL on your computer.
>
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]:
> ------------------------------
>
> Please wait while Setup installs PostgreSQL on your computer.
>
> Installing 0% ______________ 50% ______________ 100%
>
> *Error: There has been an error. Error changing group of /opt/PostgreSQL
> to daemon Press [Enter] to continue:*
>
> PostgreSQl 10 Fails with above error. I even tried to create user daemon
> still it fails
>
> --
> Holger Jakobs, Bergisch Gladbach, Tel. +49-178-9759012
>
>

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Best Regards,
Ankush Chawla