On Wednesday 14 October 2009 6:42:39 am Andale wrote: > Hi > > We have an Postgresql 8.2.5 installation on a Windows server 2003 that have > worked perfectly for our Mediawiki until we tried to update to 8.4. Before > the update we took a backup, stopped the service and took a copy of the > entire database catalog. We could not make the 8.4 (installed in a > different directory) work so we decided to go back to the initial > installation which remained intact. > > Then when we try to start the service it fails and we get the message > "could not open process token: error code 5" in the event viewer, nothing > else. Now after googling for some hours and days I am stuck. the Postgres > user are to start the service and so nothing is changed there either. Even > though the database files were not changed, we have also copied the entire > original database back. The installation has been done with the > "postgresql-8.2-int.msi" package and it has been reapplied with the > following command, "msiexec /i postgresql-8.2-int.msi REINSTALLMODE=vamus > REINSTALL=ALL /" > > Still no progress. > > What to do? > > /Anders Have you tried getting rid of the data directory you copied back, doing an initdb to create a new fresh data directory and the restoring from the backup? Just to cover the case where you did not copy everything you needed to when you made the original copy. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
