[Kmymoney] Call for Windows package testers

[Jack]

On 2014.09.18 02:27, Cristian Oneț wrote:
> 2014-09-18 1:05 GMT+03:00 Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net>:
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>> 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.

That makes sense.  At least now I know what to look for if I have such  
a problem again.   I do keep forgetting to look for stray linux-like  
processes on Windows in situations like this.  As much as I hate to  
even think it, I suppose a reboot would also have worked.

Jack