[ome-users] Further questions about broken server

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Jason,

Anybody else out there had similar problems to Glenn?
>

I have also had bad luck with the Mac OS X .dmg installer.

One problem I had was in trying to install on a Mac OS X Server box that
already had Postgres installed. My suggestion there would be to add a notice
to the MilestoneDownloads page explaining that the .dmg cannot be used on
such a setup.

My second problem was on a Mac OS X 10.4 laptop. That one may have worked,
but it was unclear to me exactly what had been done, and whether I needed to
take any additional actions, because there is no wiki page documenting it.
The lack of documentation made me nervous enough that I ended up wiping all
Postgres- and OMERO-related files (that I could find) and starting over with
the manual install. So I would further suggest a dedicated wiki page
(similar to the OmeroInstallWindows page, but for Mac OS X) documenting what
the .dmg installer does -- i.e., which files it puts where, what gets added
to StartupItems, what if any additional actions the administrator needs to
take, and how to perform a clean uninstall.

-Curtis

On Feb 12, 2008 3:18 AM, Jason Swedlow <jason at lifesci.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Glenn-
>
> Thanks for this-- good to hear you are up and running.
>
> Anybody else out there had similar problems to Glenn?
>
> Let's follow this up off-line, maybe with a phone call-- in general,
> we've had good feedback on the .dmg's, and this is the first such
> problem we've heard of, but maybe we missed something or can improve
> the docs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 12 Feb 2008, at 04:43, Glenn Murray wrote:
>
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > Well, I finally did give up on the jboss/ in omero-3.0-Beta2.3.dmg
> > package
> > and switched to omero-3.0-Beta2.3-1.tar.bz2, using the PostgreSQL
> > from the
> > .dmg setup.  It worked immediately.
> >
> > For the post-mortem, I think I was seduced by the .dmg package,
> > thinking
> > it would do everything---I wouldn't have had this trouble running on
> > Linux.  I do believe that the final message pane on the .dmg
> > installation
> > is entirely misleading in suggesting that at that point one can start
> > using the WebAdmin---it is still necessary to go through the steps
> > in the
> > UNIX install howto.  I also believe the jboss installation it puts
> > into
> > /usr/local is broken.
> >
> > I didn't have any problem with the clients, very nice.
> >
> > My thanks to you and Jason for your help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Glenn
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Sean Burke wrote:
> >> Glen,
> >>  Start over.
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