Cannot install CF8 on Snow Leopard

Report · Sep 03, 2009

I cannot get the CF8 64-bit installer to run on Snow Leopard. It never initializes. Does anyone have any ideas how to get this fixed so I can have CF8 Developer Edition running again? I did not have this problem when I had Leopard, but when CF8 would not run after the upgrade to Snow Leopard I decided to uninstall CF8 and start over.

I see tips for fixing CF8 on Snow Leopard, but they are all for JRun instances and I had standalone going so I figured the easiest way would be to start clean.

Report · Sep 08, 2009

Still looking for some help here. Anyone?

Report · Sep 08, 2009

There is this - http://cfbugs.adobe.com/cfbugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=78727 - on the bug tracker. If CF9 doesn't work on Snow Leopard, I don't like your chances of it working on CF8. If you look @ the comments, the problem seems to be with JRun rather than with CF per se, so maybe you could try JBoss instead.

I'm trying to get clarification on the status of this issue at least vis-a-vis CF9.

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Adam

Report · Sep 08, 2009

Just a follow-up to this: Snow Leopard isn't actually listed as a supported OS in the system requirements for CF8:

http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/systemreqs/

Not that this really helps, other than "in hindsight, you perhaps should not have expected it to work" 😞

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Adam

Report · Sep 08, 2009

None of that helps me because I cannot even get the installer to run on Snow Leopard. Forget CF8 not running, I cannot even get it installed. Nothing happens when you click on the icon to run it.

They did update the Java package in Snow Leopard, I imagine that's what is causing CF to bomb there.

Report · Sep 08, 2009

You could perhaps use a different PC to run the installer to create the EAR or WAR file, and then drop that into a working JBoss server?

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Adam

Report · Oct 08, 2009

What directory are you trying to run the installer from? If you have it in your DLs directory, trying moving it and then rerun.

I was able to get the 64-bit installer to run on Snow Leopard Server. It complained that I needed to install the 32-bit version, but the info on this posted helped me work around that:

http://www.berniedolan.com/post.cfm/jvm-error-installing-64-bit-coldfusion-on-mac

Report · Oct 08, 2009

It might be worth retrying the CF9 installation but with the released build. I could not get the CF9 betas to install as 64-bit on Snow Leopard but I didn't have any trouble running the 64-bit installer from the final/launched version. I'm also running the newest Apple version of Java (1.6.0_15, 64-bit) and it didn't present any issues.