Ok,
Did the installation successfully create the user account postgres?
That is the account that initdb runs under. Not sure if it automatically deletes it if the install fails.
Mike
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:58:17PM -0500, Chris Means wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the response:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Mike G
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:31 PM
> > To: Chris Means
> > Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [NOVICE] New installation of 8.0 Beta1 Failed to
> > create process for initdb: 1385
> >
> > [snip]
> > > Any ideas what's wrong?
> > Make sure you have administrative rights and not just a power user.
>
> I'm confident that I have administrative rights, but to be sure that that
> wasn't the issue, I logged in as the Administrator, and received exactly the
> same error.
>
> FYI: The "NT Service" userid "postgres" wasn't removed during the rollback,
> so future installs failed early until I removed the previous configured user
> id.
>
> > >
> > > Are there log files anywhere for me to look at?
> > Check the event viewer in windows.
>
> Nothing additional there, just the same error message.
>
> -Chris