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initdb hangs even though ipc-daemon is running?: msg#00284db.postgresql.novice
> Hi Guys, > > I'm having trouble installing & running PostgreSQL for the first time on > my Win2K system. I'm running ipc-daemon as a service (following a reboot > after ipc-daemon --install-as-service) but initdb is still hanging at the > point shown below. > > I'm guessing there may be a problem with logins/access rights here? > > > Administrator@GILBERTT ~ > $ initdb -D test > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user > "Administrator". > This user must also own the server process. > > creating directory test... ok > creating directory test/base... ok > creating directory test/global... ok > creating directory test/pg_xlog... ok > creating directory test/pg_clog... ok > creating template1 database in test/base/1... > > > I am logged in to a company domain VMSW1 as user GilbertT (well, I type > gilbertt when logging on to Win2K but user manager shows it as GilbertT) > who belongs to Administrators group on the local machine. I installed > everything via this login. Could this be the problem, since initdb reports > that the files will belong to Administrator and requires that the same > user must own the server process? > > thanks for any help - amazing how many hours (days) this sort of thing can > eat up...! > > cheers, > > Tom Gilbert > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly |
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