Hi Mark, Thanks for letting me know.
I am trying to work around the problem with tomcat not appearing in the list of programs in Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs. What I tried is explained below. However, it isn't completely successful. I think the problem has something to do with tomcat running as a service. Details follow: Here are the applicable knowledge base articles for adding or removing uninstallers to the Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs. Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481 Windows 2000 Server (seems to be the same reg keys) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247501 I added three registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\A pache Tomcat 4.1 (Default) (value not set) DisplayName Apache Tomcat 4.1 (remove only) UninstallString <full path to the tomcat uninstall .exe file> After adding these registry keys, Apache Tomcat appeared in the Windows Control Panel Add or Remove Programs list. Choosing it did run the tomcat uninstaller, but it was not really successful in uninstalling tomcat. The uninstaller could not remove the tomcat root directory, and left about half the subdirectories inside. It did remove the files in the tomcat root directory, including the uninstaller, though. :-( After the uninstall finished, the tomcat service was still running. Stopping the tomcat service and deleting the tomcat directory by hand did not finish the job. After rebooting, the tomcat service was still running. I had to reinstall tomcat (making sure to install it as a service) and then uninstall it by double-clicking the uninstaller exe. I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that I don't install tomcat as a service? After tomcat has been installed, our installer runs the tomcat.exe (Alexandria Software Consulting) to make it into a service. If this sounds plausible, can you tell me how the tomcat uninstaller knows that tomcat is running as a service, and what it does to deal with that? Perhaps I can still fix this up myself. Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:34 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Silent install of tomcat 4.1.31 on windows fails [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the confirmation. I also tested with > 4.1.32 beta and had the same experience. > > I filed bug 40171 about this issue. > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40171 > > I'm new to this list. Is there much likelihood of > this getting fixed post-beta for 4.1.32, or is the beta > really considered the release candidate? > > Thanks, > > Eric The fix is in progress and will be included in the 4.1.33 release. I don't have any plans for a 4.1.33 release at the moment. When I get around to calling the stability vote for 4.1.32 I don't as yet see any reason for it not to be stable. Others may, of course, have other views - that is why we vote ;) Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
