Do you have administrative privileges when you try to install MoteView? Otherwise, Postgres installation will fail since it won't have permissions create "postgres" user account. Here's some useful feedback from one of our users and how they were able to overcome this. ************** The problem occurs during the installation of Postgres (which fails with several error messages, and then rolls back). MoteView itself can be installed without any problem, just doesn't work very well/at all without the database.
Here is what we have found out. 1) Common Domain (users are all non-administrators by default) The problem with this system was simply that our IT group has disabled the "Secondary Login" privilege, this was preventing the Postgres user, once created, from logging on and starting the database. Enabling "Secondary logins" and having an administrator available to do the installation allowed for a complete install, and provided secondary logins was left active, MoteView functions perfectly well. Our IT department is not happy with the solution, as one might expect from such a body! 2)Extended Domain (main user has some administrator rights) There were two problems in this system. First, the "Secondary Logins" issue described above. Fixing this however, did not result in the Postgres installation completing. The second problem proves to be the presence of a user group "NT Authenticated Users" as part of the Administrators group. I'm not clear of the details, but by having this user group in the Admin. group, either Postgres refuses to install, or fails install because the Postgres user account that is created is going to get/gets administrator privileges. This specific failure mode is not documented in the material I have seen on troubleshooting, but I discovered it when running the Postgres installation from the current release from the Postgres site. This installer pops up a warning about this user group (NT Authenticated Users) and then refuses to install. The problem happens silently with your install package. The solution is to delete this User Group from the Administration group. Installation progresses normally, and MoteView functions as expected. Unfortunately, not having NT Authenticated Users as part of the Admin group, at the moment, has unacceptable side effects on the our Extended Domain users (they are deprived of admin rights), so it has to be added back to the Admin group. When this is done, the Postgres database will not mount, and MoteView can only connect to remote databases. I am still trying to get some of these issues sorted internally. However, it is clear this is no fault of Crossbow - you are caught in the "crossfire" between Postgres' pathologic aversion to administrator rights, and the strict controls that our IT department have put on how we gain and use admin rights. I'm not sure how far our guys will move - I doubt there is a Postgres solution. At the moment, I can cope. The Common Domain installation is OK, and this can server most of our corporate needs. My needs, and the needs of the IT staff on our project (all of whom are Extended domain users) are harder to service, but I can fiddle with the NT Authenticated User group as a last resort. It's damned inconvenient, and sorting this out has taken a lot of time, but we can at least move forward. ************** You might also want to search through the Postgres archives for similar issues. Good luck, Giri ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Brady Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 3:54 AM To: tinyos-help Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] PostgreSQL install problem hi, i'm having a problem installing PostgreSQL 8.0.0-rc1 on XP. I'm using the insallation disk that came with the X-Bow developer kit i'm using. Everything goes fine(installing moteview etc.) untill the installation of of PastgreSQL. The files seem to get copied and then i get the following message: Failed to create process for initdb: The service cannot be started either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. I've enabled all services that were disabled on my pc and tried re-installing from scratch but still getting the same problem. Has anyone had similar problems or know how to fix this??? Thanks, Pat.
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