topic Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows in Installation

Splunk Install Error on Windows

Drainy — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:37:53 GMT

When trying to install Splunk 4.3 on Windows 2003 I encountered the error;
"Splunk Installer was unable to create Splunk services. Please make sure the user running the installer has the correct privileges, including being able to create Windows Services. Exitcode='1'"

What has caused this and how can I fix it?

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

Drainy — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:45:55 GMT

There are a couple of things that can cause this;

Firstly you are not running the setup program with administrative privileges. If you are running a non "Administrator" admin account, ensure you right click and choose to Run as administrator.

The next option is that you may have a similar error to above but with exit code 4 and the service cannot start instead of failing to install, this is because you chose to run the Splunk services as something other than the local system account. If you enter the details for another account it is possible you have entered them in incorrectly or they do not have permissions set to run as a service.

Finally, it is possible you have either a failed previous install, an old install that wasn't cleanly removed or your install has just fallen over.
If it says it has failed to install, go to the start menu and choose run, type in services.msc
Look down the list for splunkd and Splunkweb. See them there? in that case it is possible you have an old install or a failed install. After you have made sure you have tried to run an uninstall for Splunk but they are still present you can run the following commands;

ONLY DO THIS IF THE OPTION TO UNINSTALL SPLUNK EITHER VIA THE ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS WINDOW IS NOT PRESENT OR IF WHEN YOU RIGHT CLICK ON THE SPLUNK INSTALLER AND SELECT UNINSTALL IT SAYS THAT THE PROGRAM MUST BE INSTALLED FIRST - DO NOT DO THIS ON A WORKING INSTALL

From the start menu right click on Command prompt if it is in the recent list and choose to run as administrator, otherwise navigate to the windows\system32 directory and right click on cmd.exe to run as admin.
Inside the prompt type;

sc delete Splunkd
sc delete Splunkweb

This will forcibly remove the services and allow the installer to hopefully run successfully on the next run.
This has been tested on Win2k3 but may work on other versions.

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

nick_richard — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:10:19 GMT

Excellent, worked on my XP machine.

Thanks

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

anujamk — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:08:26 GMT

Didn't work for me! On windows XP

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

templier — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:50:58 GMT

And me. This problem on 2 PC

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

chandramoulidg — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:35:47 GMT

I am also facing the same issue, I removed Splunkd and Splunkweb from services and tried, no luck. I have admin priviliges too.

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

JosephATL — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:08:47 GMT

On my Windows 2003 server, the SplunkForwarder tried to install in C:\ root directory. This is not allowed by our security policy. I installed it in C:\Program Files\SplunkForwarder, and all is OK.

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

chandankumar — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:39:59 GMT

Deleting services from cmd worked for me on Windows 7. However I see and new issue now - "Error 1310.Error writing to file : C:Program FilesSplunketcanonymizeranonymizer-time.ini".Verify that you have access to that directory

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

i_chandan — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:37:28 GMT

I was able to install on Windows 7 at location - "C:\Program Files (x86)\ " folder.
Earlier I was trying to install 'splunk-6.1.2-213098-x64-release' under "C:\Program Files" and was getting error (Error 1310.Error writing to file : C:Program FilesSplunketcanonymizeranonymizer-time.ini").

Re: Splunk Install Error on Windows

vince2010091 — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:59:12 GMT

Be careful, sometimes the service is named: "Splunkweb Service" so use :

sc delete Splunkweb Service