[Condor-users] Condor installation woes.

["Buhl, Marshall" <Marshall_Buhl@xxxxxxxx>]

Title: Condor installation woes.

Hi,

We’ve used Condor occasionally for a couple of years.  We have another big project to do and we decided to upgrade to the latest version (v6.8.2) and also add a bunch of new PCs to our pool.  Unfortunately, we’re having severe installation problems. 

I’ve not been able to find a pattern, but the installation works like a charm on some computers and gives me fits on others.  We are using Condor on Windows boxes (Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Server 2003 x64).

When I run on my personal XP desktop, I get a pop-up window that says:

“CUSTOM ACTION "ExeCaKeyF04" FAILED(unexpected return code). LOCATION: C:\Condor\, COMMAND: "cmd.exe" /c echo y|cacls "C:\condor" /t /g Everyone:R Administrators:F”

I see in the archives that others have reported this problem, but I found no answers.

On one server (Server 2003), the installation runs, but it gets hung trying to stop the Condor service.  I’ve found with previous versions that I sometimes had to set the Condor service to start manually and reboot the computer to stop the service for upgrades or uninstalls.

If anyone can provide any help, I will be most appreciative.  Condor is such a powerful tool, but it is causing me to waste a lot of time right now.  Time I don’t have.

Marshall

 

Marshall L. Buhl, Jr.              
Senior Engineer                    
NWTC-3811                          
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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