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redtopia-dev
Inspiring
January 18, 2013
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Cannot perform a clean install of CF 10 - ODBC Agent and ODBC Server are not in Services - Win2k8 R2

  • January 18, 2013
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I've tried to perform a clean install on a Win2k8 R2 x64 server several times and I can't seem to get it to install.

I was upgrading from CF 9, which took several attempts. I eventually got CF 10 working and running with the latest updates. But the server would only run for about 15 minutes and everything would come to a screaching hault. ColdFusion pages would fail to load with no error. The pages would hang and wait for the server to respond, which it never did. Restarting IIS would fix the problem.

I have about 20 CF sites on the machine. I came accross an article that talked about pool sizes, etc. I ended up trying a few things with the Web Server Configuration Tool, and as I was adding/deleting servers, I got an error that some application unexpectedly quit, but it wasn't the wsconfig tool. This happened about 3 times as I was deleting servers that I had previously added. Then I tried loading the CF Admin and I got a 500.0 internal server error.

So I bit the bullet and figured I would start all over again. I uninstalled CF 10... now there's nothing on the machine. Re-installed CF 10, and I get the same 500.0 Internal Server Error. I uninstalled, restarted, installed... same thing. Then I found an error in the event viewer that reads:

The description for Event ID 0 from source ColdFusion 10 ODBC Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

ColdFusion 10 ODBC Server error: 0

StartServiceCtrlDispatcher Error!

Then I found out that neither the ColdFusion 10 ODBC Agent or the ColdFusion 10 ODBC Server have been installed... at least they're not showing up in the list of services. msconfig also shows that they don't exist at all. I tried reinstalling several times and I can't get them to show up.

PS: It's 6:15 AM and I've been working on this since 10 PM last night. I NEED HELP! Thanks!

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Tanya_Irwin
Participant
July 25, 2013

I ran across this same issue. What did you do to resolve this??

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redtopia-devAuthor
Inspiring
July 25, 2013

I didn't resolve it. I moved everything over to a new server. It was one of the worst days of my life. It appears that an upgrade install of CF10 is broken on Win2k8 in some situations causing catatrophic failures.

Good luck. I wish I could have helped.

Anit_Kumar
Anit_Kumar
Inspiring
July 25, 2013

Hello,

Once you move your application from any prior version of ColdFusion to ColdFusion 10, you will have to tune your application, as the architecture changed from JRun to Tomcat.

 

You can refer to the article http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/tuning-coldfusion-10-iis-connector-configuration for parameters, that needs to be tuned appropriately to make CF connector works flawlessly.

 

Hope this helps

 

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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