On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:38:48AM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:00:32AM +0200, Paolo Saudin wrote: > >>I am trying to install the 8.3-dev version on a Vmware virtual machine > >>with > >>WinXP SP2. I am able to install the 8.2.4.1 version with no problem using > >>the very same settings for both servers as follow: > > > >There is no 8.2.4.1 version. There is 8.2.4 or 8.2.1. or are you using > >EnterpriseDB and not PostgreSQL? IIRC, the installer is differnt there... > > I suspect he means 8.2.4-1 which is how the archive is named in case it > needs re-rolling. Oh. Sorry about that. Too early in the morning (I know it wasn't particularly early, but obviously too early) > >>SETTINGS : > >>Account name postgres with password postmaster > > > >Is this both for the service account and the superuser account? Does this > >accoutn already exist, or is the installer creating it? > > > >>I then reset the virtual machine and installed the 8.2 with no problem. At > >>that point I tried to install the 8.3-dev with the account created by the > >>8.2 installation and I end up the same error. > > > >Any ideas on this Dave? > > The error in the log is in the create conversions phase of initdb, so I > doubt it's an installer issue. I don't have time to look right now, but > does initdb do anything unusual there? I've got a sneaking suspicion > I've seen a failure at this point before... Yeah. But look at the part about SYSTEM being the owner, I wonder if that's related. //Magnus
