Yes, you can definitely remove your old installation folder in order to
complete uninstallation of the old instance. GlassFish installation is
not registered in Windows registry or elsewhere, so that's the only
cleanup that should be required.
FWIW, the notifier error mentioned in uninstallation log could be
expected if you did not choose to install update center client at
installation time since updatetool.exe file will not exist in that case.
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all thanks a lot for helping me out.
>
> I finally was able to do that. And I’ll explain my steps in details.
>
> 1. The first thing I tried to do was disabling of UAC, start-up the server using standard user and check if console is alive. I got the same exception. I tried the same but using admin account – same stuff.
>
> 2. So I decided that probably the initial installation did not go well and tried to uninstall the server and install it again in other folder: C:\Sun\glassfishv3. The fact that [i]updatetool --notifier –shutdown[/i] showed no output and [i]uninstall.exe[/i] did not work (says running Java 2 and then disappears) was one more proof that there was something wrong with my installation. So using admin account I installed to C:\Sun\glassfishv3 and successfully run it.
>
> 3. But I decided to find the root cause so I removed it again and installed into my old path C:\#Development\GalssFish_v3. BTW, uninstall had few exceptions and lot of files were not removed, but I hope that it is fine. The exceptions look like:
>
> [#|2010-01-22T13:32:56.004-08:00|INFO|Install Engine|org.openinstaller.provider.conf.InstallationConfigurator||Exception while unregistering notifier: Exception=EXECUTECMD_ERR
> [
> at org.openinstaller.util.ExecuteCommand.execute(ExecuteCommand.java:467)
> at org.openinstaller.provider.conf.InstallationConfigurator.unconfigureUpdatetool(null:?)
> at org.openinstaller.provider.conf.InstallationConfigurator.unConfigure(null:?)
> at org.openinstaller.provider.conf.ConfigProvider.receiveRequest(ConfigProvider.java:573)
> at org.openinstaller.bus.ControlBus.publishRequest(ControlBus.java:341)
> at org.openinstaller.provider.task.UnconfigTask.perform(UnconfigTask.java:88)
> at org.openinstaller.provider.task.TaskDriver.executeTask(TaskDriver.java:378)
> at org.openinstaller.provider.task.TaskProvider.receiveRequest(TaskProvider.java:117)
> at org.openinstaller.bus.ControlBus$3.run(ControlBus.java:404)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
> ]
>
> Caused By=java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Sun\glassfishv3\updatetool\bin\updatetool.exe": CreateProcess error=3, The system cannot find the path specified
>
> The second installation did not work and again I was not able to run uninstall.exe.
>
> 4. To summarize: it looks that the root cause is the path C:\#Development\GalssFish_v3, most probably ‘#’ symbol. I did not play with UAC after I was able to install the server, but I think it’s better to leave it switched off as it was mentioned by Snjezana.
>
> So far I have only one question left before I continue my dive into GF – [b]what do I do with my not uninstalled instances?[/b] Can I just remove the folder since domain is shut down there, or I need to clean it elsewhere?
>
> Thanks a lot again!
> Robinzon
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