Installation fail on V 3.4.1 on Windows Server 2003

[rhung]

Installation error by kit Alfresco_Enterprise3.4.1-installer-win-32.exe on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. During Unpacking C:\Alfresco\postgresql\symbols\postgres.pdb step. Error message as follow :
There has been an error.
Error running initdb.exe -U postgres -E UTF8 -D C:\Alfresco/POSTGR~1/data : Program ended with an error exit code
The application will exit now.

My server equip with Pentium 4 3 GHz CPU, 1.5 GB RAM, 34 GB system disk and additional 232 GB disk. I select all components except SharPoint.

Raphael

rhung@canadapowerproducts.com

[sunnycloud]

Hello,


I have the exact same messageof error, except that I'm running on XP Pro instead of server 2003 and I choose the default configuration for installation, which include sharePoint.

Does anyone else have encountered this problem or has a workaround for it ?  This problem seems fairly new as I found very little information googling it.

Finally, there is no logfile at this point of the installation.

[sunnycloud]

I finally did a clean install of Windows XP and it did the trick.  Alfresco installed itself perfectly this time.  It is not the perfect solution, but at least it works.

[nirs]

Hi,

I have the same problem installing alfresco-enterprise-3.4.3-installer-win-x64.exe on a newly installed Windows 2008 Enterprise R2 x64.

Exact error message is:

There has been an error
Error running initdb.exe -U SYSTEM -E UTF8 -D
C:/Alfresco/alf_data/POSTGR~1 : Program ended with an error exit code
The application will exit now.

Thanks.

[nirs]

I was able to solve the problem by giving USERS group write/modify permissions over c:\Alfresco.

[heywoodkenobi]

I know this is an old post but I had this problem on first install and found this via Google.  If you right-click the install and run as Administrator the problem will be resolved.