topic Re: Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends? in Alfresco Forum

Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends?

sepgs2004 — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:47:00 GMT

I have a Windows 10 Professional system. I downloaded the Alfresco Community 5.2 installer.This is the link I used Alfresco Community Edition | Alfresco Two times I tried installing.It keeps spinning at "Initializing the database" or something forever, one time even for more than 12 hours.Has anyone

Re: Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends?

ranjeetsi — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:27:41 GMT

Hi,

I had faced similar kind of issue and it took long time in that state but after long time i got a pop up with regedit error or Wndows error 10XX, dont remember though....

That time i just searched and found that some DLL file was interfering with the postgresql installation when alfresco was installed.

I searched and then had updated the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redestributable..." which somehow was updated due to some other software installation on my machine.

Just check your control panel if your above program has been updated recently - wither update or remove it and check it out. That program interferes with some DLL causing the installation issue.

Can you check that time the status of services.msc .

Wait till the time it gives pop up error. Hope it helps.

Re: Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends?

sepgs2004 — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:32:43 GMT

It worked when I ran the same installer in a different machine, but with three differences.

- Ran the installer as an administrator

- Took the advanced option to install, but chose all the defaults

I have not tried the same with the machine that it failed originally.

Re: Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends?

ranjeetsi — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 17:28:46 GMT

Good ! that you were able to kickstart by installing on a different machine.

But can you try with the same three things on your previous machine - mostly , by the resolution looks like some application /software is interfering with alfresco which could be a great find .

Also please wait for any pop up message of OS logs - if you can locate .

Thanks again!

Re: Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends?

sepgs2004 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 23:20:28 GMT

I tried installing in my development machine, where it was failing initially.

This time I tried to run the installation as an Administrator, and chose the advanced option in the installation, and left the install folder to the default folder. Everything worked great.

I do not know why the first two times, it was spinning for ever on the Initializing Database step.

Re: Does anyone know why installing Alfresco 5.2 never ends?

ranjeetsi — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:22:30 GMT

Great that now it is resolved - Might have been some issue while installing DB on the port.Or some system issues.

Since we don't have any logs - its difficult to track back - the root cause earlier two times...

Thanks!