Re: installer woes, 9.1 on windows 2008 R2

On 6/27/2013 6:44 AM, Igor Neyman wrote:
> Try to look at Windows Event Log, m.b. there will be some useful info.

nada but unrelated noise

> M.b. you need to run installer local (not corporate active directory) account, still member of local Administrators
group.

hmmm.   having local accounts violates corporate security policies :-/

> Also, from your original posting:
> " I added the LOCAL\postgres user to the permissions on the D:\postgresql\9.1 directory and gave it full control"
>
> You don't have to create Postgres account "manually" and grant him privileges - installer does it for you.  Could
thisbe your problem? 

it created the LOCAL_MACHINE\postgres account, but it failed at adding
it to the ACL for D:\postgresql\9.1\data



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