Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-27 Thread Marquis103
the process explorer was the big help for me. what i did while the installation was running was open up process explorer saw what it was running and obviously figured out what it was trying to do and i just went and manually did it myself then i'd kill the icalc.exe...after that another one popped

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Craig Ringer, 16.09.2011 05:02: On 15/09/2011 4:18 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: I ran another install and monitored what the process was doing and it *is* recursively touching all files on my harddisk when icacls C:\ /grant "tkellerer":RX is called. Even without the /t switch. That's a worry.

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-16 Thread Craig Ringer
On 15/09/2011 4:18 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: I ran another install and monitored what the process was doing and it *is* recursively touching all files on my harddisk when icacls C:\ /grant "tkellerer":RX is called. Even without the /t switch. That's a worry. I verified this using Proces

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Craig Ringer, 14.09.2011 06:20: As Dave noted, it's a non-recursive grant. It isn't changing the permissions for C:\ and everything under it. It's only changing the permissions for C:\ its self. It's then stepping down the path of parents down to the datadir and doing the same thing to make sure

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Brar Piening, 14.09.2011 21:49: Thomas Kellerer wrote: So I killed the iacls.exe and the script proceeded, just to hang at the next call to icacls.exe when it tried to set the privileges on the directory for the postgres user despite the fact that that user already was the owner and had full con

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-14 Thread Brar Piening
Thomas Kellerer wrote: So I killed the iacls.exe and the script proceeded, just to hang at the next call to icacls.exe when it tried to set the privileges on the directory for the postgres user despite the fact that that user already was the owner and had full control over it. So I killed icac

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-13 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Craig Ringer, 14.09.2011 06:20: I forwarded your message to Dave Page in case the EDB folks needed to look into this. He commented that: "Aside from the fact that icacls is hanging for reasons unknown, it appears to be doing what it is designed to do - it traverses up the path from the data dire

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/13/2011 02:44 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: It turned out that it tries the following: (Note that the selected data directory is c:\Daten\db\pgdata91) icacls C:\ /grant "tkellerer":RX (Changing the permission for the whole harddisk!!) I forwarded your message to Dave Page in case the EDB

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-13 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Merlin Moncure, 12.09.2011 21:28: With the second attempt, the installer again hang during initdb. Checking the state using ProcessExplorer I could see that the installer script was waiting for icacls.exe to set permissions for the user currently running the installer. It was running [icacls.exe

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-12 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install 9.1 on a Windows7 64bit machine but the installation > hangs during the initdb process. > > Looking at the taskmanager I could see that the installer script was waiting > for icacls.exe to complete setting the ap

[GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-12 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hi, I tried to install 9.1 on a Windows7 64bit machine but the installation hangs during the initdb process. Looking at the taskmanager I could see that the installer script was waiting for icacls.exe to complete setting the approriate permissions on the data directory. As I know that proble