I've read through numerous of the Splunk questions/answers re: splunk installer unable to blah blah blah but haven't found the right answer that works for me. I am trying to install Splunk to a brand new VM. I'm trying to install it to the E: drive (another partition) instead of the usual C: drive as E: has 100 GB of storage. In addition, I am using the local user for the install. I'm logged in as Administrator and have ensured that E: drive has all the permissions I need. However, I continue to get the error: splunk installer unable to start splunk services... exitcode=2. I've tried running the installer as Admin and continue to get the same issues.
In addition, I notice that even though I get this unable to start splunk services error, I see Splunk in my startup menu and I see splunkd and splunkweb under services. But each of them says AUTOMATIC and if I try and start the services, it gives me an error. I even tried via command line... nothing.
I've tried many of the other recommendations: cleared out registry, checked permissions, tried using command line, etc. Nothing seems to work. Would love any further suggestions.
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