Re: could not open process token: error code 5

When I try to initiliase a new database from command prompt i get the
following message.

"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin>initdb -D d:\data\postgres\dbnew
The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\bin/initdb".
Check your installation."

Please note that the slash is in the wrong direction in the error message
(before initdb) and the "postgres.exe" is there in the bin directory.

Even when I have renewed the installation the same happens.

Still no progress.

/Anders

Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 6:42:39 am Andale wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> We have an Postgresql 8.2.5 installation on a Windows server 2003 that
>> have
>> worked perfectly for our Mediawiki until we tried to update to 8.4.
>> Before
>> the update we took a backup, stopped the service and took a copy of the
>> entire database catalog. We could not make the 8.4 (installed in a
>> different directory) work so we decided to go back to the initial
>> installation which remained intact.
>>
>> Then when we try to start the service it fails and we get the message
>> "could not open process token: error code 5" in the event viewer, nothing
>> else. Now after googling for some hours and days I am stuck. the Postgres
>> user are to start the service and so nothing is changed there either.
>> Even
>> though the database files were not changed, we have also copied the
>> entire
>> original database back. The installation has been done with the
>> "postgresql-8.2-int.msi" package and it has been reapplied with the
>> following command, "msiexec /i postgresql-8.2-int.msi REINSTALLMODE=vamus
>> REINSTALL=ALL /"
>>
>> Still no progress.
>>
>> What to do?
>>
>> /Anders
>
> Have you tried getting rid of the data directory you copied back, doing an
> initdb to create a new fresh data directory and the restoring from the
> backup?
> Just to cover the case where you did not copy everything you needed to
> when you
> made the original copy.
>
>
>
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