Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>I get a popup box that says:
>>
>>initdb.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.
>>We are sorry for the inconvenience.
>>
>>Clicking a link gives this info:
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>>AppName: initdb.exe AppVer: 8.2.0.6051 ModName: msvcrt.dll
>>ModVer: 7.0.2600.1106 Offset: 00033830
>>
>>It wouldn't let me copy the rest of the info ;-(
>>
>>
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>Hm. Crap. (For those not familiar with this, that's a coredump without a
>core:-P)
>
>Does it give you an error code? (Nevermind the stackdump etc, just the
>code)
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I'll have a look when I get time to reboot the machine into Windows.
>Are you running this with an admin account or a non-admin account? If
>admin, what are the permissions on the initdb.exe file and libpq.dll?
>
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Should be unprivileged - it's the account I use to run buildfarm. (and
which has therefore in each case just successfully run "make check" with
the identical binaries).
>Anything weird in how you run it - do you specify a path to initdb, or
>run it from current directory for example?
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relative path: bin/initdb foo
(bin has libpq.dll as well as initdb.exe).
>And finally, can you check with process explorer if it's the first or
>second initdb that dies? (With this patch, initdb will re-exec itself
>with lower privs)
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>
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I will add some trace writes when I get a chance. I was rather hoping
something would jump out at you, but obviously it hasn't, so I'll have
to dig into it the slow way. *sigh*
cheers
andrew