On 1/04/2010 3:19 PM, Nikhil G. Daddikar wrote:
On 01-04-2010 12:39, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
Nikhil G. Daddikar, 01.04.2010 08:04:
In about 30 seconds I found the following unanswered threads relating to
installation on Windows Vista. If anybody is interested I can find more.
The problem with this kind of statistics is that you will only find
people who complain, you'll never find people who do not complain
because they have no problems. Actually that's true for all internet
forums or mailing lists: you'll seldomly find people posting something
like "Hey everything works fine, I had no problems".
I agree... but they are still unanswered. And what else can I do. I am
facing problems on multiple computers, my customers are facing problems
as well. NOBODY till date has managed to install 8.4 on Vista using the
1-click installer and EVERYBODY has managed to install the 8.3 installer
(from postgresql.org) on Vista. DOES THIS COUNT AS A VALID STATISTIC?
And yes, i have tried installing it in C:\Postgresql as well.
Interesting to note that 8.3 installer from postgresql.org installs
perfectly in 'C:\Program Files' even on Vista. No use blaming Windows
all the time. It is the installer that is buggy.
Yet I can install 8.4 from the one-click on my Vista box with no issues.
So - what makes your systems different? Let's figure this out and fix
it. I'm going to provide a profile of my machine's configuration. Please
compare it with yours, focusing on common points across the machines
you've seen issues with.
OTHER PEOPLE, PLEASE CHIME IN WITH SIMILAR DETAILS. (Perhaps we need a
trouble-shooting data collector app. Hmm. I might be up to that...)
My Vista machine runs build 6002 (Service Pack 2) according to winver.exe .
I log in as an Administrator-enabled user, but have UAC turned on. This
means that in fact I'm using non-admin rights unless/until I accept a
UAC prompt.
For a virus scanner, it has Microsoft Security Essentials installed, but
real-time protection is turned off. There is no resident anti-spyware
software. It does not have 3rd-party desktop search installed.
It's never had 8.3 installed, by msi or oneclick. (When you provide
this, make sure to mention if/how you uninstalled 8.3 before installing
8.4, whether you removed the postgres user account, etc).
A running process list from Process Explorer is attached.
When I launch winver.exe there are no non-Microsoft DLLs loaded
according to Process Explorer. (View, Show lower pane, DLLs). So there's
nothing hooking into every process launched on the machine.
Please follow up with equivalent details on your systems. Meanwhile I'm
going to uninstall 8.4 and reinstall it. If that works I'll delete the
user account and all registry entries, install 8.3 .msi, uninstall that,
and then install 8.4. See what might be going on.
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Craig Ringer
Process PID CPU Private Bytes Working Set Description Company
Name
System Idle Process 0 95.71 0 K 24 K
Interrupts n/a 0 K 0 K Hardware Interrupts
DPCs n/a 0 K 0 K Deferred Procedure Calls
System 4 0 K 2,724 K
smss.exe 408 292 K 100 K
csrss.exe 544 2,100 K 1,920 K
wininit.exe 600 1,228 K 128 K
services.exe 644 2,532 K 3,016 K
svchost.exe 840 3,536 K 3,648 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
mobsync.exe 1292 3,088 K 5,928 K Microsoft Sync Center
Microsoft Corporation
nvvsvc.exe 884 2,396 K 368 K NVIDIA Driver Helper Service,
Version 197.13 NVIDIA Corporation
nvvsvc.exe 1568 4,688 K 2,444 K
svchost.exe 916 3,264 K 3,332 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
MsMpEng.exe 956 132,424 K 56,292 K AntiMalware
Service Executable Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1064 15,876 K 7,092 K Host Process for
Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
audiodg.exe 1308 12,596 K 7,760 K
svchost.exe 1096 65,324 K 62,264 K Host Process
for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
dwm.exe 2672 2,964 K 536 K Desktop Window Manager
Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1132 51,808 K 50,696 K Host Process
for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
taskeng.exe 552 2,140 K 2,236 K
taskeng.exe 2772 9,524 K 3,384 K Task Scheduler Engine
Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1344 3,244 K 2,532 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
SLsvc.exe 1396 6,812 K 1,392 K Microsoft Software Licensing
Service Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1488 7,284 K 6,500 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1648 16,976 K 11,868 K Host Process
for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
spoolsv.exe 1804 5,472 K 2,932 K Spooler SubSystem App
Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1828 12,008 K 7,224 K Host Process for
Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
MSCamS32.exe 1412 10,428 K 1,844 K MsCamSvc.exe
Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 512 2,096 K 1,300 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
pg_ctl.exe 616 3,140 K 180 K pg_ctl - starts/stops/restarts
the PostgreSQL server PostgreSQL Global Development Group
postgres.exe 520 4,980 K 404 K
postgres.exe 2228 4,296 K 528 K
postgres.exe 2380 4,284 K 464 K
postgres.exe 2388 4,288 K 260 K
postgres.exe 2396 4,316 K 756 K
postgres.exe 2404 4,268 K 648 K
nvSCPAPISvr.exe 1296 2,088 K 1,092 K Stereo Vision Control
Panel API Server NVIDIA Corporation
svchost.exe 2072 3,552 K 1,960 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
winvnc.exe 2100 1,916 K 2,328 K VNC server for Win32 UltraVNC
winvnc.exe 2580 2,496 K 3,532 K
svchost.exe 2180 584 K 520 K Host Process for Windows
Services Microsoft Corporation
SearchIndexer.exe 2208 45,640 K 38,256 K
Microsoft Windows Search Indexer Microsoft Corporation
SearchProtocolHost.exe 448 5,612 K 8,116 K
SearchFilterHost.exe 948 4,180 K 6,600 K
SteamService.exe 3848 3,224 K 832 K Steam Client Service
Valve Corporation
lsass.exe 656 3,172 K 2,472 K Local Security Authority
Process Microsoft Corporation
lsm.exe 664 2,320 K 1,980 K
csrss.exe 612 20,596 K 14,748 K
winlogon.exe 748 2,072 K 1,980 K
explorer.exe 2784 41,032 K 33,168 K Windows
Explorer Microsoft Corporation
jusched.exe 3360 2,716 K 1,048 K Java(TM) Platform SE binary
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
jucheck.exe 2632 3,612 K 1,368 K
vVX1000.exe 2624 1,720 K 1,480 K Microsoft LifeCam Device
Application Microsoft Corporation
Steam.exe 3272 120,472 K 65,624 K Steam Valve
Corporation
Skype.exe 2140 34,804 K 17,156 K Skype Skype
Technologies S.A.
msseces.exe 1036 5,340 K 6,228 K Microsoft Security Essentials
User Interface Microsoft Corporation
TSVNCache.exe 3516 4,348 K 2,176 K TortoiseSVN status cache
http://tortoisesvn.net
firefox.exe 4072 89,652 K 103,076 K
MozillaDeveloperPreview Mozilla Corporation
mozilla-runtime.exe 3448 11,348 K 11,180 K Plugin
Helper for MozillaDeveloperPreview Mozilla Corporation
thunderbird.exe 940 79,700 K 87,924 K
Thunderbird Mozilla Messaging
procexp.exe 2496 5.11 28,440 K 24,776 K Sysinternals
Process Explorer Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
soffice.exe 3588 1,020 K 132 K OpenOffice.org 3.1
OpenOffice.org
soffice.bin 2260 6,916 K 4,172 K OpenOffice.org 3.1
OpenOffice.org
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