Quickbooks takes a dump
-
I love Windows installers.
I'm installing the Quickbooks database server manager on Windows Server 2012 R2. The installer successfully installs FLASH, and then proceeds to shit its pants on the actual database server manager. An hour after starting, it's still stuck on "Status: Installing files."
So I hit cancel, and it takes 20 minutes for the app to quit. With the ambiguous message "Sorry! Your install was interrupted." So did it clean up after itself or not?
Who knows!
-
Wow.
Now it's telling me to reboot the file server to complete the installation.
This shit does not happen on Linux.
-
@Captain Mostly because you're too busy trying to figure out how to properly buff Linus' buttocks and which CLI command you need for this task, so that you can't actually get anything done
-
@izzion Nah, that sort of thing is just muscle memory at this point.
-
@boomzilla Personally, I'm quite
apt
at it by now.
-
@Onyx
get
you
-
@Captain said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
So did it clean up after itself or not?
From experience...no it did not.
Install .Net 3.5 first. Installers have gotten lazy about that and you cannot assume it is installed anymore and the way Server 2012R2 handles it is kind of screwy which has broken a lot of installers.
-
dpkg
quite often gets into a state where it refuses to install a package because it's already installed and suggests I uninstall it first, but refuses to uninstall because the package is in a bad state and should be re-installed first.
-
@mott555 What sorts of things are you doing that this happens "quite often?" I've managed to get some things into weird states on occasion, but it's pretty rare.
-
@boomzilla Usually happens when someone (often me) tries to install our .deb packages without having Qt4 or the Linux headers installed first. I think it happens because our driver install/uninstall scripts do something very bad if there are missing dependencies. I do a lot of testing across a lot of OS's and distros, of course with varying package names and CLI syntax, and it's pretty rare I get everything set up correctly on the first try when working with a new OS install.
-
@mott555 Sounds to me like you're making bad .debs and not specifying the requirements.
Now...if you were doing this on Windows, it would almost certainly be a hardware problem.
-
@boomzilla said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
get some things into weird states on occasion
-
@Luhmann What's so funny about Alabama?
-
@boomzilla said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
on Windows, it would almost certainly be a Linux hardware problem.
-
@Onyx said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
What's so funny about Alabama?
Are you kidding me? Have you seen it on the map?
It looks like Alabama found PJH's ballz.
-
@Luhmann Was that map drawn in Paint?
-
@RaceProUK said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
Was that map drawn in Paint?
Why are you asking me? I only draw Belgium in paint ...
-
@boomzilla said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
@mott555 Sounds to me like you're making bad .debs and not specifying the requirements.
Now...if you were doing this on Windows, it would almost certainly be a hardware problem.
It's not a hardware problem, it's because of shitty drivers, and that isn't Microsoft's fault!!!!!!!!
-
@Lorne-Kates said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
and that isn't Microsoft's fault!!!!!!!!
Unless it's a Microsoft Mouse
-
@Lorne-Kates said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
@boomzilla said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
@mott555 Sounds to me like you're making bad .debs and not specifying the requirements.
Now...if you were doing this on Windows, it would almost certainly be a hardware problem.
It's not a hardware problem, it's because of shitty drivers, and that isn't Microsoft's fault!!!!!!!!
DRIVERS ARE HARDWARE!
-
@boomzilla said in Quickbooks takes a dump:
DRIVERS ARE HARDWARE!
DRIVERS ARE SOFTWARE YOU INSTALL ON HARD DRIVERS WITH BITS AND ONES AND ZEROS NOT ATOMS AND SILICON!
-
@RaceProUK The color scheme reminds me of ArcIMS, which is old enough that MSPaint might be a better option these days.