I had the same problem while I was installing Tomcat 5.5.9 and I observed that there was a service defined for tomcat installed previously of version 6. Once I uninstalled that version of Tomcat the problem was fixed.
Hope this would others having same problem! --- Chamin De Silva Hez wrote: > > Hi! > > I got this error when trying to install Tomcat 5.5.23 on Windows XP: > > Failed to install Tomcat5 service. > Check your settings and permissions > Ignore and continue anyway (not recommended)? > > the above error occurs with these status: > ...... > tomcat-users.xml written > Remove folder: C:\Temp\confinstall > Using Jvm: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\client\jvm.dll > > I abort the installation at this point. > > After searching the Google, I tried to set the environment variable > TEMP and TMP to C:\Temp, but that doesn't help either. > > When I open the Services (Local) window, I see that there is a service > named Apache Tomcat (Apache Tomcat 5.5.23 Server - > http://tomcat.apache.org/" ... > I think this service is created but not being remove when I abort the > Tomcat installation. > > Please help, thank you! > > > -- > > Hez > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Failed-to-install-Tomcat5-service-tp11114789p26194794.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org