Re: installer woes, 9.1 on windows 2008 R2

From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:38 PM
To: PostgreSQL
Subject: [GENERAL] installer woes, 9.1 on windows 2008 R2

trying to install 9.1.9 64bit on a win2008 r2 server and getting a failure of the initdb phase, with no clue why.

I've installed the application on C:\postgresql\9.1\  and the data on D:\postgresql\9.1\data  ... after the first try, I added the LOCAL\postgres user to the permissions on the D:\postgresql\9.1 directory and gave it full control, this propagated to the .\data dir too, then I tried running the installer again (since there's no clues how to manually invoke the initdb process properly).   same error, no clues.
'problem running post-install step. .... 
The database cluster initialization failed'.

is there an installation log somewhere?  I haven't found it in either \postgresql\ path.

if it matters, this server is a member of the corporate active directory, as is my user account that I ran the installer from (but said user account is a member o the local Administrators, and the PG installer invoked the privilege elevation thing when it started)

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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

Look for bitrock_installer.log in the \Users\<account_you_are_using>\AppData\Local\Temp.
Or just do search for bitrock_installer.log file.

Igor Neyman