I donno why, but it is libpq.dll which hampered the installation, I copied libpq.dll into system32 folder when I installed mapserver, now I just renamed it to a different name and the installation was successful and postgres installed a new libpq.dll file, I donno if this causes any problems to mapserver (so far so good both mapserver and postgres are working fine). I am just curious what is the role of libpq here. can any body have any idea. I am very happy, thanx all. shashi. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:07:26 -0600, Shashi Gireddy <gireddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI Martin, > Thanks for your response. I tried installing from postgresql user > account, it didn't worked for me. It was giving a different error > (Access Denied), I gave all security permissions to that user still it > didn't worked. This user is not a power user (only limited user) but i > didn't see any option as power user. Do you know how to make a limited > user as a power user. any other suggestions. > thank you, > shashi. > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:02:40 +0200, Martin Thoma > <mthoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi shashi, > > > > Do you run initdb as Adminintrator? If so, try to run it as user that > > you specified during the installation. > > > > >Hi all, > > >When I tried to install Postgresql 8.0 on windows xp (ntfs) on my > > >system it gave me the following error: > > > > > >initdb.exe Application error: the application failed to initialize > > >properly (0xc0000022). Clikc on OK to to terminate the application. > > >then it gave me a message: Failed to run initdb: -1073741790 please > > >see logfile in c://.../8.0/tmp/initdb.log but there is nothing in that > > >file. > > >I turned off the firewall, disabled anti-virus, gave full control to > > >every one in security settings, still it didn't worked. I installed it > > >successfull on a different computer it worked fine. > > >can anybody help me. Thankx a million in advance. > > >thank you, > > >shashi. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Shashi Kiran Reddy. Gireddy, > Graduate Assistant, > CBER, University of Alabama. > http://www.cs.ua.edu/shashi > Home: 205-752-5137 Cell: 205-657-1438 > -- Shashi Kiran Reddy. Gireddy, Graduate Assistant, CBER, University of Alabama. http://www.cs.ua.edu/shashi Home: 205-752-5137 Cell: 205-657-1438