Re: initdb hangs even though ipc-daemon is running?

Are you _sure_ ipc-daemon is running?  I've never had success with it
running as a daemon.

Jon


On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm having trouble installing & running PostgreSQL for the first time on my
> Win2K system. I'm running ipc-daemon as a service (following a reboot after
> ipc-daemon --install-as-service) but initdb is still hanging at the point
> shown below.
>
> I'm guessing there may be a problem with logins/access rights here?
>
>
> Administrator@GILBERTT ~
> $ initdb -D test
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "Administrator".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> creating directory test... ok
> creating directory test/base... ok
> creating directory test/global... ok
> creating directory test/pg_xlog... ok
> creating directory test/pg_clog... ok
> creating template1 database in test/base/1...
>
>
> I am logged in to a company domain VMSW1 as user GilbertT (well, I type
> gilbertt when logging on to Win2K but user manager shows it as GilbertT) who
> belongs to Administrators group on the local machine. I installed everything
> via this login. Could this be the problem, since initdb reports that the
> files will belong to Administrator and requires that the same user must own
> the server process?
>
> thanks for any help - amazing how many hours (days) this sort of thing can
> eat up...!
>
> cheers,
>
> Tom Gilbert
>
>
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