Re: Re: BUG #15769: The database cluster intialisation failed.

Hi,

I'm not sure but the error may be because of insufficient ACLs on the
installation directory. Could you try launching the installer on the
command prompt with "--enable_acledit 1" option and check if this fixes the
issue?

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 7:38 PM Nick Anderson <
nicholas(dot)anderson(at)zurichna(dot)com> wrote:

> In case you did not receive the attachment on my reply I pasted code below
> for the error section from the end of the bitrock_installer.log file.
> Please advise.
>
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale "English_United
> States.1252".
> The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
>
> Data page checksums are disabled.
>
> fixing permissions on existing directory C:/PostgreSQLdata ... ok
> creating subdirectories ... ok
> selecting default max_connections ... 10
> selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB
> selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... windows
> creating configuration files ... ok
> running bootstrap script ... initdb: could not execute command
> ""C:/PostgreSQL/bin/postgres.exe" --boot -x1 -F ": No error
> initdb: removing contents of data directory "C:/PostgreSQLdata"
>
> Called Die(Failed to initialise the database cluster with initdb)...
> Failed to initialise the database cluster with initdb
>
> Script stderr:
> Program ended with an error exit code
>
> Error running cscript //NoLogo
> "C:\PostgreSQL/installer/server/initcluster.vbs" "NT
> AUTHORITY\NetworkService" "postgres" "****" "C:\PostgreSQL"
> "C:\PostgreSQLdata" 5432 "DEFAULT" 0: Program ended with an error exit code
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 10:57 AM
> To: Nick Anderson <nicholas(dot)anderson(at)zurichna(dot)com>;
> pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: BUG #15769: The database cluster intialisation
> failed.
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 02:32:19PM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> >The following bug has been logged on the website:
> >
> >Bug reference: 15769
> >Logged by: Nick Anderson
> >Email address: nicholas(dot)anderson(at)zurichna(dot)com
> >PostgreSQL version: 9.6.5
> >Operating system: Windows Server 2012 R2
> >Description:
> >
> >When trying to install PostgreSQL 9.6.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 an
> >error displays that says "Problem running post-install step.
> >Installation may not complete correctly. The database cluster
> initialization failed."
> >
>
> There's not much we can do without additional info - we don't know what
> exactly failed and why. Try digging in the windows system log, for example.
> I believe there should be a log file from the installer in %TEMP% so maybe
> there's more info in it.
>
> regards
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