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From: Harald Armin Massa
Hi Harald,
>I guess your service is not running after rebooting? You can check this via services.msc
This is what is confusing me - the service IS running after rebooting, but does not appear to be listening on port 5435. If I simply restart the service in the Administrative Tools > Component Services section everything is fine.
>>During the installation process, when it came time to run initdb, the installer would stop with the error message:
>> "Failed to run initdb: 128. Please see the logfile in 'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\tmp\initdb.log.
> > Note! You must read/copy this logfile before you click OK, or it will be automatically removed."
> Did you read that log? Read and copy it befor clicking OK, just as the message stated?
When I tried to (before clicking OK), there was no initdb.log file - or any other file - in the 'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\tmp\ directory.
>One try to repair this: login as Administrator, open services.msc, and from the postgreSQL service refill the login information. That does reset the LOGON_AS_SERVICE privilege.
I'll give this a try and see what happens.
George