Re: postgresql 8 beta 4 will not install

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

Yeah. My guess is that either those tcl84.dll:s weren't included in the system PATH, or the tcl84.dll in this one installation is broken and not in the others.

 

//Magnus

 

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From: Paul Kirschner [mailto:kirschpe(at)hotmail(dot)com]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:21 AM
To: Magnus Hagander; pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] postgresql 8 beta 4 will not install

I did have tcl84.dll in my cygwin install. Renaming it allowed the install to proceed.

 

Thanks...

 

But that begs the question - my other 2 machine ALSO have cygwin installed with tcl but the initial install went OK.

----- Original Message -----

From: Magnus Hagander

To: Paul Kirschner ; pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org

Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:45 AM

Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] postgresql 8 beta 4 will not install

Actually, it helps a bit. It shows we have an actual *crash* in CheckAvailableDLLs. This codei s basically:

LoadLibraryEx on perl58.dll, tcl84.dll and python23.dll. It is supposed to handle failures on that, and certainly shouldn't crash.

Then it does a GetVersionEx() to cehck if the machine is a domain controller. The crash could come from here for some reason, but I think I've exercised all codepaths there befoer.

 

Can yuo check if you have any of the above listed DLLs on your system? If you do, try renaming them to ".dll.old" or something and run again, just to see if we get past this point then - that would pinpoint that DLL as the problem.

 

//Magnus

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From: Paul Kirschner [mailto:kirschpe(at)hotmail(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 2:33 AM
To: Magnus Hagander; pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] postgresql 8 beta 4 will not install

Doesn't seem to offer much help!

 

>type pginstlog.txt
=== Logging started: 11/9/2004  20:30:43 ===
Action start 20:30:43: INSTALL.
Action start 20:30:43: AppSearch.
Action 20:30:43: AppSearch. Searching for installed applications
AppSearch: Property: HAS_DOTNET, Signature: SEARCH_DOTNET
Action ended 20:30:43: AppSearch. Return value 1.
Action start 20:30:43: CheckAvailableDLLs.

----- Original Message -----

From: Magnus Hagander

To: Paul Kirschner ; pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org

Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:42 AM

Subject: RE: [pgsql-hackers-win32] postgresql 8 beta 4 will not install

I assume this happens before you are presented with even the first dialog box?

Please try running the installer with logging enabled:

msiexec /l* c:\pginstlog.txt /i c:\where\ever\postgresql-8.0.0-beta4.msi

 

That should produce a logfile that will hopefully point you in the direction of what's wrong

 

//Magnus

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From: Paul Kirschner [mailto:kirschpe(at)hotmail(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:52 AM
To: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [pgsql-hackers-win32] postgresql 8 beta 4 will not install

I've been able to install version 8.0.0 beta 4 on two machines but the third one fails. The Windows Installer starts but after a few seconds the installer widow disappears.

 

I'm using Win2K with all current service packs.

 

Any ideas on what is wrong or how I can make this work?

 

TIA.