Did you remove the postgres user account before reinstalling? On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:49:59PM +0100, Tom wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 1635 > Logged by: Tom > Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PostgreSQL version: 8.0 > Operating system: Windows 2000 > Description: Failed to create process for initdb > Details: > > I'm trying to reinstall PostgreSQL and during the install I'm getting the > following error. Then it shuts down the install. > > Failed to create process for initdb: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad > password > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
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