[rabbitmq-discuss] Once again: big, big trouble attempting a clean reinstall

[Pollard, James]

Thanks Matthias (and Mark for his earlier reply, too.)

I uninstalled RabbitMQ and Erlang (5.9.1).
This left some directories, which I manually deleted:

{user}\AppData\Roaming\RabbitMQ
c:\program files\RabbitMQ
(also confirmed that .erlang.cookie was gone, too.)

downloaded installer otp_win32_R15B02_with_MSVCR100_Installer_fix.exe

Installed the above (being careful to "run as administrator".
Then ran rabbitmq-server-3.0.0.exe  (also as administrator).

Exactly the same symptoms and result.

Erlang seems to be successfully installed, at least, I can run the erlang console, toolbar, etc.


I am left with suspicions that there is some permissions issue, but I am afraid I may have to step into the erlang service 
installer in debug mode to find out what the exact problem is.  This may be more erlang than I want to get into, but I 
may have to just bite this bullet.  

If I had a suggestion to the RabbitMQ team, it would be that their windows installer be made aware of these conditions so that
it does not report successful installation when that was not in fact successful.

regards

jimp
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Radestock [mailto:matthias at rabbitmq.com]
Sent: Tue 11/20/2012 2:50 PM
To: Discussions about RabbitMQ
Cc: Pollard, James
Subject: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] Once again:  big, big trouble attempting a clean reinstall
 
Jim,

On 20/11/12 19:22, Pollard, James wrote:
> I am now attempting a clean reinstall of a newer version of rabbitmq,
> and having a very frustrating time.
>
> configuration details:
>
> installing on my local developer desktop, Win 7 (32 bit).
> erlang version installed:  5.9.1
> rabbitmq installer:  rabbitmq-server-3.0.0.exe

Please grab the Erlang R15B02 (aka 5.9.2) Windows Binary download from 
http://www.erlang.org/download.html and let us know whether that makes a 
difference.

Regards,

Matthias.

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