initdb hangs

Hi!

From the posts in the forum this seems to be the most common problem. From cygwin I installed postgres, cygrunsrv and bzip2 packages. I also downloaded and untared cygipc. I followed jason's instructions, and I get stuck on the initdb step.

I am running W2K professional. When I log in as postgres initdb hangs. From the postgres user account, I cannot start ipc-daemon, I get Error 5 Access Denied. So from the login of user with administrative rights using the runas command i open the cygwin shell logged in as postgres. initdb still hangs with ipc-daemon running as well as without ipc-daemon running. I even tried running ipc-daemon as a non NT-service (i.e. $ ipc-daemon &) but to no avail.

What could be the reason for this peculiar problem. Please help as this is stalling the testing of our software which is well-past the deadline.

Thank you,
Richie

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