topic Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent in Alfresco Archive

Installer hangs at 32 percent

tman247 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:26:32 GMT

Hi, I'm just trying to install 4.2c CE on Centos 6.3 x64. This is a fresh installation of Centos, and I'm using the GUI installer.The installer starts fine, but whatever I do, it hangs at 32%, specifically at this point;creating link <install dir>/postgresql/bin/postmasterI've tried the follow

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

g_rathod — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:33:00 GMT

Hi tman247,
There may be case when ports are conflicts. Do full uninstall alfresco and try vanilla may help. Also do check have you downloaded proper package and running 32-bit or 64-bit installer on respected environment?

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

g_rathod — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:52:57 GMT

updated

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

tman247 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:57:00 GMT

Thanks. I'm actually installing this in a VM (ESXi), and am using snapshots to roll back when I'm trying to get the install working, so when it fails, I just revert, and it's as though Alfresco was never there. This is as clean a start as you can get.

Anyway, I'm def using the 64-bit installer on 64-bit CentOS, so it's baffling as to why this is happening.

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

bisana — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:33:53 GMT

Your OS postgresql may be running,can u please check on this

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

tman247 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:13:22 GMT

Ok, I took the decision to do a completely fresh install of Centos 6.3 x64 from the original source media (not our kickstart build). Once built, I started the CE installer, and waited. It got to 32% (again!), and then paused for 1-2 minutes, then I saw the new message 'Waiting for Postmaster', and the installer continued! Yay, I'm getting somewhere. So, now I wait for the install to complete. Another lengthy pause at 100%, but then a success message.

All the services then seem to start ok, and it all looks good. I then connect to the web page (http://localhost:8080/share), and try and logon as admin/admin, but it says 'The remote server may be unavailable or your authentication details have not been recognized.'

Is this the right page or credentials for the initial logon? Pretty basic stuff I know, but I don't want to come to a halt now.

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

tman247 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:55:37 GMT

Ok, I'm logged in now. Everything seems ok from what I can tell so far. Very, very odd install problem though.

Re: Installer hangs at 32 percent

kjozsa — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:12:12 GMT

I had hit the exact same problem on my 64 bit Arch Linux today during a fresh install of 4.2.c. The solution appearently was to run the installer as root and wait for a couple of minutes (doing so with my plain user did not help).

Hope that helps hunting down this issue.. it's quite scary as a first-time Alfresco experience for a newcomer