[ome-users] Further questions about broken server

[Glenn Murray]

Hi,

I had a previous installation of PG, but had removed it before attempting 
the .dmg install.  It was the Liyanage version, and as I recall, put the 
installation into /usr/local/ (definitely not /Library).  It required 
creating a postgres user, which I had deleted, also---but perhaps not from 
NetInfo?  It's hard to say, as I've reformatted the hard drive to install 
Leopard (so no chance of recovering /var/log/install, sadly).  But note 
that PG wasn't a problem once I switched away from the .dmg jboss.

Perhaps I'll have a chance to try the .dmg on the clean machine.

The Liyanage and the OMERO .dmg installs suffer from the common problem of 
not informing the user of how they are uninstalled.  Is there a wiki page 
for uninstalling?

Yes, the .dmg install did "croak spectacularly," but only if you were 
looking at the log files.  As far as the install dialogs were concerned, 
everything was peachy.

Cheers,
Glenn


On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Chris Allan wrote:
...
> The intention of the .dmg install is to avoid any such messing around in 
> fact; it is designed to install PostgreSQL, JBoss, etc. on a clean (or 
> semi-clean at least) Mac OS X machine with a working OMERO.server instance 
> when that final dialog pops up. If you have odd user settings, previously 
> installed versions of PostgreSQL, etc. the .dmg install will croak 
> spectacularly, as you have just experienced.
>
> What would be helpful is a copy of /var/log/install.log unless it has been 
> /dev/null'd by the OS already.