[postgis-users] Unable to laod "C:/Program Files (x86)/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.dll" unknown error 998

[Paragon Corporation]

Sebastian,

I presume you installed the 32-bit PostgreSQL the second time around you
installed right?
If not that is probably your problem since PostGIS is not yet supported on
the 64-bit EDB windows builds
(just the 32-bit installers). If you are interested in supporting our
efforts to build a 64-bit windows version then you can contribute to our
campaign

http://www.pledgebank.com/postgis64windows


Other reasons why you get this error:
1) one of the files postgis-1.5.dll depends on is not there.
common culprits which should be in the bin folder of your PostgreSQL \ bin
folder are

libgeos_c-1.dll, libgeos-3-3-2.dll, libproj.dll,libiconv-2.dll,
libxml-2-2.dll

If all those are present in your PostgreSQL bin, then use dependency walker
to check the dependencies which you can download from here

http://www.dependencywalker.com/

2) You are using the wrong postgis-1.5.dll -- note that there is a different
version for each version of PostgreSQL.  So if you say try to use a 9.0
postgis 1.5 with 9.1 version of PostgreSQL, it won't work.

You can download the one for your install from here and replace the
postgis-1.5.dll if that is the case:

http://www.postgis.org/download/windows/

Hope that helps,
Leo and Regina
http://www.postgis.us


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net 
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On 
> Behalf Of Sebastian Matyas
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:20 AM
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: [postgis-users] Unable to laod "C:/Program Files 
> (x86)/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/postgis-1.5.dll" unknown error 998
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I recently ran into a weird error for which I cannot find a 
> solution (tried Google and such) adn I could really use your help.
> I installed posgresql 9.1 and postgis 1.5.3 on a Windiws Server 2008
> R2 (64bit) machine and for some time everything went fine. 
> Then two days ago I was not able to view any data table that 
> used the geography data type anymore though I didn´t change 
> anything on the server or the postgis configuration.
> 
> When I then tried to analyze or dump the database I getan 
> error which says that psql was not able to laod the 
> postgis-1.5.dll (unknown error
> 998) which is strange as the dll is located in the directory 
> which is given in the error message. I also deinstalled 
> postgis and tried to install it again but then I get the same 
> error message.
> 
> Please help me cause I cannot find a solution and I really 
> need the data...
> 
> Best regards
> Sebastian Matyas
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