I have been running 8.0 on this Windows XP machine for some time now
without problem. I decided I would upgrade the machine to 8.1 before
starting my next project. I tried running the upgrade.bat file that
comes with 8.1 however it failed to run for some reason or another.
Instead I uninstalled 8.0 and tried to do a fresh install of 8.1.
The 8.1 refuses to complete giving me "Failed to run initdb: 1!" when
it gets to the point of creating the database. The initdb.log file
contains the following information:
===============: initdb.log
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
fixing permissions on existing directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/global ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_xlog ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_clog ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_subtrans ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_twophase ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_multixact/members ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_multixact/offsets ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/base ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/base/1 ... ok
creating directory C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/pg_tblspc ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 10
selecting default shared_buffers ... 50
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data/base/1 ...
child process was terminated by signal 1
initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/apps/PostgreSQL8.1/data"
==================
I have tried removing the postgres user and letting the installer
create it, installing to different directories, ect without any luck.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Ryan