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Re: Glassfish lost password and uninstall failure

From: Lidia Marchioni <lidia.marchioni_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:05:31 -0700 (PDT)

Make sure you specify JAVA_HOME to the uninstall program (skip "bin").
E.g. try

uninstall.exe -j \Java\jre7

Lidia


Grayson Churchel wrote:
> Can someone explain this to me? I went through the exact same routine
> with 1.6.0_24 then downloaded and installed 1.7. What am I missing here?
>
> I spent hours trying to find a way to set the password I seem to have
> lost on the Glassfish console then tried to run the installer again.
> Told it to reconfigure an existing installation and set the password
> again. That failed utterly. I gave up and decided to uninstall and
> re-install. When I run the uninstall.exe it tells me it can't find 1.6
> or better of the JRE. Specifically gave it the path to the /bin folder
> and it still can't find it. If I can't get the uninstall to work soon
> I'm going to remove it by brute force. I just don't know what
> fragments that might leave behind. Can anyone tell me how to get this
> uninstaller to work?
>
> Grayson Churchel
>
> Glasssfish3 Uninstall Fail.png