[Kmymoney] Call for Windows package testers

[Cristian Oneț]

2014-09-18 1:05 GMT+03:00 Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:
> On 2014.09.12 22:10, Jack wrote:
>>
>> On 2014.08.26 12:20, Cristian Oneț wrote:
>>>
>>> 2014-08-26 18:28 GMT+03:00 Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:
>>> > On 2014.08.26 09:59, Doug Lytle wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but I think that needs to be specially setup and since Microsoft no
>>>>>>> longer offers support for XP I don't know why should we do that.
>>>
>>> >> And, I really don't expect you or anyone to do that.
>>> > I can also understand not supporting XP, but what about Windows Vista?
>>> Since I don't have Vista available, I can't say, somebody should try it.
>>> I was sure about XP since I had one and tried to run the new version on it.
>>> I get an error like [1] this.
>>> [1]
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7702463/what-is-special-about-the-executables-compiled-with-visual-studio-11-which-resul
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the delay, but I finally got to try the installer on a Windows
>> Vista system.  The installer ran fine, with no errors, but a momentary
>> pop-up of a command line window complaining about missing mime-types (or
>> something like that - it disappeared after about a second with no
>> intervention on my part).  Trying to run KMM, however, does absolutely
>> nothing.  No error, no warning, no window.  I even tried from command line -
>> just back to command prompt, no feedback at all.
>
>
> [replying to my own message because I can't currently find any later message
> in my oveflowing inbox]
>
> After uninstalling and reinstalling, it seems to work fine, even without a
> reboot.  One difference is that this time I installed as a user with admin
> privs.  I confirmed it still works as that user and a different user without
> admin privs.  So - we know the latest installer does work under Windows
> Vista.
>
> As a digression:  the uninstall/reinstall was a nightmare.  It seemed to
> complete the uninstall fine - no error messages.  I then tried to run the
> installer, and got some error message about not being able to write one of
> the dll files.  I cancelled the install, and started looking in the install
> directory.   I'm not absolutely certain whether stuff had not been deleted
> by the uninstall, or if all those files were from the second installation
> before it failed.  However, I had a very hard time simply deleting all of
> them so I could make a clean install.  I don't know what the underlying
> issue was, but I just could not delete any of the dll files (and some
> others?) either as a user with admin privs, or even as the main system owner
> user.  I finally managed to delete everything using the Cygwin shell.  All
> seems OK now, but we'll see what happens on the next uninstall when I try
> the next version.
>

This usually happens when dbus-daemon, which should be stopped by
'kdeinit4.exe --shutdown' does not actually stop. It can be solved by
running 'kdeinit4.exe --terminate' before uninstall. I have to check
if I can add that to the installer.

Regards,
Cristian

>
> Jack
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