Thanks for the communication, Damon. I am sure many of us are excited about a soon-to-come solution. I know I am. I am sure it will help Michael's blood pressure as well! <g>
The less-than 256 bit color display is reproducible on most any machine, by switching to the default vga driver. You can always change it back after testing, regardless of the video card setup. I just checked the Add/remove listing on my developer box (Win2k) and see that Java 2 runtime Environment, SE shows both v1.4.0_01 and v1.4.0_03. I don't see a listing for java runtime on either my Win2k server (CF 5.0) or my Win2003 server (CFMX Pro) I have no idea is this has any significance at all. Most hosting providers will leave the default video driver in place, to reduce resource requirements while the server is up and running, however, it is not much of a problem to switch to 256 colors (or more) when install packages require it. Most of them do, from what I have seen. Important here is that the installer kick up an error message if the color setting is not high enough. I have seen this "reminder" a number of times. I, for one will be glad to test whatever scenario you come up with. Jochem accessed my Win2003 server, remotely, yesterday and successfully installed CFMXPro on the machine and while it is installed as a stand-alone, it did complete the install with updater 3, and rebooted without the freeze-up experienced before. I am going to test this procedure a few more times, to make sure I have the steps in the correct order and down pat. In the meantime, I want to install a web site that uses CFMX for non-critical test purposes and continue the saga. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am not experiencing this with Linux/Apache installs. These are no-brainers compared to the Windows issues. ====================================== Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com Check my ISP rating: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 ====================================== If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damon Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:41 AM Subject: Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on Windo ws Issues... | I've not had the cycles to keep up with the feeding frenzy this has turned into, but I thought I'd update everyone on where we are regarding the 2 issues reported and discussed here at the one machine at Mike's hosting site: | | 1) ZeroG Java-based Updater installer hang. | | It took us a little while to track this down (we had to find a machine with less-than 8-bit color display capability...harder than you'd think these days). | | Here's the scoop: | | a) For the GUI-based installer, a minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors) is required to run InstallAnywhere-based installers. Additionally, installers require a minimum 640 X 480 screen resolution. | | b) The Updater installer can be invoked in "silent" mode on Windows, if you have a machine that doesn't meet (a) above for the GUI install, or (b) you have a need to apply the Updater to many machines via batch scripts, etc, etc. Follow the instructions here for a "silent" install: | | http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx_updater03.html#silentinstall | | | 2) CF not automatically starting reliably on Windows after system reboot: | | We had 3 engineers working this all day Friday, and we believe we have a reproducible case, and have started debugging the process to see what's happening. | | One of the things we're about to try is to simply switch Java VM's to see if this is the result of a Java VM bug (we've had several in the interacting-with-Windows-as-a-Service area before, so we're not ruling that out, and it's a quick thing to try. Recall that the CFMX Gold bits shipped out of the box with the Sun 1.3.1_03 VM. Trying the 1.3.1_08 VM, the 1.4.1_03 VM and the 1.4.2 Beta VM will determine whether it's something that's fixed in the VM. If anyone on this list is experiencing the issue, and wants to try these VM's and report back, that would be a big help, and you can participate in helping to move this issue forward. | | More to come, when we know more (likely Monday EOD sometime)... | | Thanks for your patience. | | Damon | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
