hi dirk,
that was fast...yes that is the start of the error. It happens after I load the inital install page, fill-up the info, click the start installation button and the next page only display the 1st line as stated earlier, refresh brings me back to inital install page. I'd tried to drop and recreate the db many times, same error persist with a fresh db. yup, psql service0 works fine.
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