Paul Bunyan Installation Issues:
We are in the process of releasing our new 3.0 version for Paul Bunyan. Currently, we have a variety of issues with installing the new 3.0 version if you have attempted to install an unsupported 2.x version on Vista x64, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008.To be able to install over a corrupted install, you will need to manually remove the old failed install.
The steps are as follows:
- The current beta has a simple log file it writes in C:\ that stores information about the install that you will need. If you are unsure of how to find any of the information you will need in the steps below – please go ahead and try to install the 3.0 version and check for c:\PBInstallLog.txt
- In the PBInstallLog.txt file there is a line that you will need and it will look like:“File:W:\PB\PBService\FShared.cpp, Line:2367, Msg:LIoh0comju”
- The text after the Msg:LI is the old license file – in this case, it will be c:\windows\oh0comju.dat
- Delete the file in C:\windows that corresponds to the license file in your installation
- Open a cmd prompt and type the following:
- net stop “Paul Bunyan”
- reg delete “HKLM\Software\Diamond Sierra” /f
- reg delete “HKCU\Software\Diamond Sierra” /f
- reg delete “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Diamond Sierra” /f
- If you have the Microsoft Resource kit installed – you can delete the server using instsrv.exe
- instsrv “Paul Bunyan” REMOVE
- If you do not have instsrv.exe, then you can go to Services in Administrative Tools and delete the Paul Bunyan Service
- Assuming you attempted to install Paul Bunyan into the default directory: ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Diamond Sierra\Paul Bunyan’
- Delete the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Diamond Sierra\Paul Bunyan and the files in it
- Depending a variety of factors, you may have to delete the files from the directory in explorer and then delete the directory
- In some cases, the file PBServer.exe may be locked, in this case you will need to boot the computer into Safe Mode and then go can delete the file.
- If you did not install to the default directory – please delete the files from the directory where you installed Paul Bunyan to
- At this time, the corrupted installation of Paul Bunyan should be removed. Please reboot and install the latest 3.0 version.
- Go to Services and check to see that Paul Bunyan service is running, if not – check the event log and email support@diamondsierra your PBInstallLog.txt file and the information in the event log pertaining to Paul Bunyan
- If the Service is running, then try a command line log message and then open the viewer to display the message.
