CF MX7 Hangs On Install

Question

I recently had to upgrade hardware/software/other bits on my
local development box. I had been using Win2K (& IIS) with CF
MX7 Developer edition. Since the upgrade I am now using WinXP. I
have tried loading 7.01 & 7.02 (both developer edition) to no
avail. It keeps hanging at "Creating CF Directory Structure".
Adobe's website and CS suck. There seems to be no where for me to
ask anyone what the problem is, so I lay my problem at the feet of
those here. Maybe some kind hearted soul can explain what I need to
do to get this stupid thing to install. I'm having to load it to
fix a broken CF site I created a few years ago, and personally,at
this point, CF is becoming WAY too much of a headache to
administer. I'm ready to swap to something more widely used, like
ASP, or plain old HTML. Any help out there?

Answer 1

>Are you logged in as a local administrator when you try
the installs?
I'm assuming so. It's my box. I did the OS install, I've
installed
everything else on this box with no problems.
>It might be an idea to temporarily disable your AV and
firewall (firewall
>shouldn't matter, but... I've found sometimes it does...
ZoneAlarm, for
>one, can get in the road of this sort of thing).
Had already considered that. At the moment I'm flying without
any AV (yes,
insane, I know) because the AV and email were argueing. CF
install has
been tried under both conditions: with AV, without AV. Same
hang.
>I've had similar problems to this before when the install
file was corrupt,
>but this is unlikely to be your problem if you've tried
both 7.0.1 and
>7.0.2. Are you certain you've tried both?
File names say 7.01 & 7.02. Also, according to the
website, the file
sizes are correct.
>Are you installing the software to anything other than
the default
>directory? What sort of install are you running: the
standard flavour
>or multi-server?
This is as plain vanilla an install as you can get. Developer
version on a
single box. No networking, no multi-anything except drives.
>Is your Windows XP install completely up to date,
patch-wise? I've also had
>a couple of problems in the past with some bung security
patches (since
>fixed by patches to the patches...).
Not a big fan of MS patches unless they are absolutely
necessary. They usually
cause more problems than they solve. What's the least I could
get by with,
do you suppose?
>What other significant software is installed on the
machine?
Not really anything. It's a home developer box, so has email
and word processors,
and a couple graphics programs. Nothing that I haven't had
cohabitating with
CF before and nothing that should upset a CF install. Really,
it's a small box
and a very plain install.
>I think the CF install maintains an install log as it
runs (sorry to sound
>vague... I've not needed to check this sort of thing for
a year or two)?
>It might be worth eyeballing that for some clues.
I can't find an "install" log, but there is a log that must
be from a previous
install (implying it's not doing a complete uninstall) that
seems very upset that
CORBA isn't enabled. (whatever CORBA is) It says this over
and over:
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:11",,"CORBA
Configuration not enabled"
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:11",,"Starting
cron..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:11",,"Starting
registry..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:11",,"Starting
client..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:11",,"Starting
xmlrpc..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:12",,"Starting
graphing..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:14",,"Starting
verity..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:14",,"Starting
archive..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:14",,"Starting
document..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:16",,"Starting
eventgateway..."
"Information","main","10/21/07","15:10:17",,"ColdFusion
started"
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:53",,"Starting
logging..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:53",,"Starting
crypto..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting
license..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting License
server ..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting
scheduler..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting
WatchService..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting
debugging..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting sql..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Pool Manager
Started"
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:22:55",,"Starting
mail..."
"Information","main","10/24/07","05:23:01",,"CORBA
Configuration not enabled"
>I find when CF is running, it doesn't cause many
administrative problems,
>to be honest. And... having installed it probably 100-odd
times, I've only
>had problems 2-3 times, and it's been my fault all of
those times. I'd try
>to keep your toys in your pram for a while longer, and
just try to get the
>problem sorted before doing anything else too drastic.
No, I agree, I've never had a problem with it before, and
I've been using it
since around 2001. But the past 18 months I have had nothing
but trouble
with CF, it's maintenance, and now this install. It's really
becoming too
much overhead to deal with. I'm sure it's just that there's a
bit flipped
somewhere in the XP IIS stuff, but I don't do this often
enough to say,
"oh, of course!, There!" I didn't want to go to XP, but had
no choice.
Hopefully, this time next year I'll be using Linux. One of
the main reasons
I haven't moved yet was CF was slow to get a Linux version.
Now that there
is, I hope to get to try it out. Eventually.
Thanks for the help. I'll look at removing all CF bits, see
what patches are
out, and try again.