Thanks that was it.

Had installed an AVR programming environment that used cygwin. C:\WinAVR\bin;C:\WinAVR\utils\bin;

Note that I wasable to re-install version 8.0.4 of postgres without having to remove the references to WinAVR from the environment variables.

thanks again

Richard


Magnus Hagander wrote: 
See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_windows.html, question 3.1.
Your problem is most likely with a broken DLL file in the system path,
usually from cygwin.

//Magnus
 

  
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org 
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sydney-Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:01 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Windows installer fails for 8.1

I have installed successfully on one machine. Removed 8.0 and 
then installed 8.1 ok

However the second machine fails.
Asks for the language and then halts.
If I kill process in task manager then installation resumes 
but then fails completely with a "Chinese" user name. 
Computer is laptop with locale = Australia and language = English.

Have included the last bit of the install log.

Note : have also just installed/removed pgAdmin and open 
office and they were ok.

thanks as always.

Richard

MSI (c) (80:DC) [16:51:38:546]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI (c) (80:DC) [16:51:38:546]: Attempting to enable all 
disabled priveleges before calling Install on Server MSI (c) 
(80:DC) [16:51:38:546]: Connected to service for CA interface.
MSI (c) (80!7C) [16:51:39:265]: Note: 1: 2259 2:  3:  4: 
MSI (c) (80:70) [16:51:39:906]: Leaked MSIHANDLE (3) of type 
790540 for thread 3964 MSI (c) (80:70) [16:51:39:906]: Note: 
1: 2769 2: GetAvailableLocales 3: 1 MSI (c) (80:70) 
[16:51:39:906]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Error MSI (c) (80:70) 
[16:51:39:906]: Note: 1: 2228 2:  3: Error 4: SELECT 
`Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 2769
DEBUG: Error 2769:  Custom Action GetAvailableLocales did not 
close 1 MSIHANDLEs.
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing 
this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. 
The error code is 2769. The arguments are: 
GetAvailableLocales, 1, Action ended 16:51:39: 
GetAvailableLocales. Return value 1.
MSI (c) (80:88) [16:51:39:906]: Doing action: 
CheckAvailableDLLs Action 16:51:39: CheckAvailableDLLs.

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