Re: Failed to run initdb: 128

2010/3/4 Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>:
> On 04/03/10 00:12, Niranjan Maturi (nmaturi) wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to install Postgres 8.2 on a virtual machine that has
>> Windown 2003 SP2. The installation fails with the error "Failed to run
>> initdb: 128". I searched the archives and looks like it is a catch-all
>> error. But is there anything specific that we can do to resolve this
>> issue?
>>
>> I am logged in as an administrator, so no problem with permissions.
>> Postgres was able to create the windows user account properly and after
>> that it fails with the above error. It tells us to copy a log file
>> initdb.log, but that file does not exist.
>
> It clearly didn't get that far in the process.
>
>> There is another log file pginstall.log, where I do see some error
>> messages, I printed them below. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Well, searching on error "2769" just seems to say a custom installer step failed. In this case clearly "GetAvailableLocales" - nothing unusual with your locale setup, is there?

No, that's not the probem. GetAvailableLocales() is the last step that
runs pre-installation. It has clearly moved past it.

If you get the initdb execution error, there should (hopefully) be a
separate log called (IIRC) initdb.log.

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