Craig Ringer, 14.09.2011 06:20:
I forwarded your message to Dave Page in case the EDB folks needed to
look into this. He commented that:
"Aside from the fact that icacls is hanging for reasons unknown, it
appears to be doing what it is designed to do - it traverses up the
path from the data directory to the root directory, granting
read/execute permissions on each dir as it goes. It's a non-recursive
grant (the default - /T makes it recurse), and is done because a
great deal of the failures we used to see were caused by the user not
having read or execute permissions on one of the parents of the data
directory (or installation directory)."
... which to me explains why:
Then when I kill that process, the installer starts a new one with
icacls "C:\Daten" /grant "tkellerer":RX
As Dave noted, it's a non-recursive grant. It isn't changing the
permissions for C:\ and everything under it. It's only changing the
permissions for C:\ its self. It's then stepping down the path of
parents down to the datadir and doing the same thing to make sure you
have the required rights on every folder all the way down.
See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525(WS.10).aspx
and note the lack of the /t flag when icacls is called.
Given that, it's not clear why it's taking so long. A lock of some
kind, maybe? Anyway, it's *not* recursively changing the permissions
on your HDD.
Thanks for the feedback.
Those steps do make sense - and I appreciate the installer doing that, as there were a lot of problems in various forums regarding the permissions ;)
But I have no idea why it's hanging (or taking that long).
I ran the installer on a Windows XP box (32bit) that is not part of a domain, and there everything worked just fine.
I currently don't have time to re-test this and wait until it finished (or check what iacls.exe is waiting for). But maybe next week I can try to find the real reason for that.
Regards
Thomas
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