Hello. I had such an error but rather long ago. Unfortunately I don't remember all the details but you could try to do the followig: - check if the directory 'data' has read/write rights for your OS account (account under which you try to start postgres). - check if your OS account has the right to log on as service (Administrative Tools/Local Security Settings/User Rights Assignment) - check in Computer Management/Local Users and Groups/Users if your OS account is NOT the member of any group of users. Regards, Marina. > > 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 > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
