Postgres 7.4.5-1 postmaster service fails to start after XP SP2 installed

["Andy Carroll" <andy_carroll at hotmail dot com>]

G'Day all,

After installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 the postgres postmaster service 
no longer starts, reporting "The following information is part of the event: 
postmaster : PID 2252 : starting service `postmaster' failed: execv: 1, 
Operation not permitted." in the event log.

The other cygwin services "CYGWIN cygserver" and "Cygwin IPC Daemon 2" both 
start just fine. The event log shows that the postmaster service had started 
up correctly following each restart, until I updated to XP SP2 late last 
night.

I tried re-installing cygwin - cygwin DLL now reports as version 1.5.10-3, 
postgresql as 7.4.5-1 - (see attached cygcheck output) I'm not sure what 
versions were installed prior to reinstalling - but they were only a few 
months old.

I have tried uninstalling SP2, but the problem persists. I'm guessing that 
installing SP2 modified a permission on either a postgres file or directory, 
or modified the permissions on the postgres account underwhich the Windows 
service runs, and that this change to permissions remains in place even 
after un-installing SP2.

Can anyone explain what the error message "execv 1, Operation not permitted" 
error means. I'm guessing it simply means the cygrunsrv executable could not 
exec a child process

As I mentioned the postgres service had been working just fine, until last 
night when I installed SP2

Anyone got any suggestions for diagnosing this further??


Cheers.


- Andy Carroll

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