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A suggestion: make it work
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A suggestion: make it work
Why can’t people write proper installers with proper error messages? What is wrong with people?
I tried to install Pandora, and this is what I get in step 4 of the web gui:
Creating database and default configuration file
Connection with Database
Creating database ‘pandora’
Opening database ‘pandora’
Creating schema
Populating database
Established privileges for user pandora. A new random password has been generated: ihhiwcxm
Please write it down, you will need to setup your Pandora FMS server, editing the /etc/pandora/pandora_server.conf fileWrite permissions to save config file in ‘./include’
Created new config file at ‘include/config.php’There were some problems. Installation was not completed.
Please correct failures before trying again. All database schemes created in this step have been dropped.
No effing clue what the “failures” are. No effing clue at all. No hint. No log file. Just a failure or failures.
The problem is this: people write installers for systems that are already set up, rather than for clean installations. This is a bad idea as it hides bugs.
I could persist with Pandora, but it’s just a waste of my time. If the installation doesn’t work correctly, why would I trust anything else to work correctly?
Thank you for your useless and unhelpful error messages. If anyone asks me about Pandora I will say “it doesn’t install and doesn’t tell you why not.” That is my experience. I don’t care if it works for somebody else.
I give up.
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Hi Stinky,
I have added your suggestion to our roadmap to be evaluated by the development lead.
If you give us more information about your system and a full detail about the steps you followed to install Pandora console maybe we can help you to solve the problem.
Thanks for the feedback!
