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Capgemini
IN
Last activity: 7 Mar 2022 2:59 EST
Error while installing pega perosnal edition 8.7
Hi
I am unable to install pega 8.7 in my system. while installing getting an error "unable to connect to database"
Initialization: [echo] Beginning installation of Pega Platform 8.7.0 Personal Edition -- this process should take about 5-10 minutes ... [unzip] Expanding: C:\Users\RAPVIJAY\Downloads\117149_PE_8.7\pegaGuiInstallerTemp0\PersonalEdition.zip into C:\PRPCPersonalEdition [echo] Configuring Tomcat (Setting Java Home and Catalina Home)... [replace] Replaced 0 occurrences in 0 files. [replace] Replaced 1 occurrences in 1 files. [replace] Replaced 2 occurrences in 1 files. [replace] Replaced 1 occurrences in 1 files.
Hi
I am unable to install pega 8.7 in my system. while installing getting an error "unable to connect to database"
Initialization: [echo] Beginning installation of Pega Platform 8.7.0 Personal Edition -- this process should take about 5-10 minutes ... [unzip] Expanding: C:\Users\RAPVIJAY\Downloads\117149_PE_8.7\pegaGuiInstallerTemp0\PersonalEdition.zip into C:\PRPCPersonalEdition [echo] Configuring Tomcat (Setting Java Home and Catalina Home)... [replace] Replaced 0 occurrences in 0 files. [replace] Replaced 1 occurrences in 1 files. [replace] Replaced 2 occurrences in 1 files. [replace] Replaced 1 occurrences in 1 files.
Database Server Installation: [exec] The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user [exec] This user must also own the server process. [exec] [exec] The database cluster will be initialized with locale "English_India.1252". [exec] The default text search configuration will be set to "english". [exec] [exec] Data page checksums are disabled. [exec] [exec] creating directory C:/PRPCPersonalEdition/pgsql/data ... ok [exec] creating subdirectories ... ok [exec] selecting default max_connections ... 20 [exec] selecting default shared_buffers ... 400kB [exec] selecting default timezone ... Asia/Calcutta [exec] selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... windows [exec] creating configuration files ... ok [exec] Execution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not [exec] permitted. [exec] The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent [exec] possible system security compromises. See the documentation for [exec] more information on how to properly start the server. [exec] child process exited with exit code 1 [exec] initdb: removing data directory "C:/PRPCPersonalEdition/pgsql/data" [exec] running bootstrap script ... [exec] pg_ctl: directory "C:/PRPCPersonalEdition/pgsql/data" does not exist [echo] [echo] Waiting for Postgres to start... Unable to connect to database -- will retry in 1 second... Unable to connect to database -- will retry in 1 second... Unable to connect to database -- will retry in 1 second... Unable to connect to database -- will retry in 1 second... Unable to connect to database -- will retry in 1 second...