permission denied error on initdb when installing alfresco community edition

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I previously had installed alfresco community edition using the installer, but my server eventually ran out of hard drive space and things go corrupted. I wasn't able to run the uninstaller (getting strange permissions issues).

So i removed the entire installation folder and am trying to install again. It gives me this error when I'm running the installer as root: bash: /opt/alfresco-community/postgresql/bin/initdb: Permission denied

When I look for the folder /opt/alfresco-community/postgresql, it doesn't exist. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

Did you check to make sure that both tomcat and postgres were completely shut down before removing the installation directory? Do a pas -ef|grep tomcat and ps -ef|grep postgres to find out. — Jeff Potts

mitpatoliya mitpatoliya · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-13T08:46:47

You run into multiple problems if you install alfresco as a root user. Because it tends to make many things in accessible for normal user and Alfresco expect to have access on those items for user called "alfresco". That create issues.

permission denied error on initdb when installing alfresco community edition

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