First, I've been forced to use Windows today. If any of my generally irritable
mood manages to find it's way through the text on your screen, I apologize.
Seriously.
Second, the subject at hand. Since I'm on Windows (XP) I figured I'd uninstall
Freenet and try a fresh install. (This Freenet node is connected maybe once
every couple of weeks, so there was no impact to the network by losing the
datastore.)
The installation had a few hitches. The first thing I noticed was that the
installer, upon not finding a JRE installed, commenced with download and
installation of Sun's JRE. For one thing, it's not entirely correct that I
don't have a JRE. It's understandable that the installer couldn't find it,
though (due to my particular setup). This would be no big deal except that I'm
not given the option to skip the installation of the Sun JRE. One second I'm
cliking an OK button for installing Freenet and the next I'm downloading the
JRE. No warning. But I clicked Cancel. It tells me that download has failed
(not entirely correct, if I didn't *want* the download) and would I like to
retry? I say No. It gives me this message:
"I could not find a Java Runtime Environment installed and I couldn't download
one from The Free Net Project's servers. Installation has failed. You could
try downloading Java Runtime Environment ('JRE') from
http://java.sun.com/getjava/ or you could just try running this installer again
later. Click OK to cancel this installation"
Basically, there's this whole run around that could be avoided by making "Sun
JRE" be one of the options in the "Select components to install:" box at the
beginning of the installation.
In possibly non-related news, later in the installation (after restarting it to
let it download the JRE) I got an interesting error:
"IKernel.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x771c741a" referenced memory at "0x001637b0". The memory
could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program."
IKernel.exe is the engine for InstallShield. InstallShield is apparently being
used for the Sun JRE. However, two things lead me to think that there's
something else being installed (by some error, not intentionally). One, despite
clicking OK to terminate I am able to load Freenet and run it. Two, a bunch of
SSH logo'ed windows jumped up, as if I was installing SSH.
I can't recreate the error now, and SSH is installed on this computer, so the
problem may be unique to me. I've installed Freenet for others who have Windows
XP machines and didn't have this problem. However, it's definitely a problem,
so I figured I'd log it on the collected minds of devl and friends.
-todd
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