I thought the same. I am admin on the host (32 bit wintel.) It just never installs the service. I can manually create services with other processes/installs.
here is the error i am gettign when starting Splunk manually:
D:\Splunk\bin>splunk start
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\splunk\clilib\cli.py", line 18, in
import control_api as ca
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\splunk\clilib\control_api.py", line 16, in
import clean
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\splunk\clilib\clean.py", line 9, in
import splunk.windows as win
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\splunk\windows.py", line 3, in
import wmi, json
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 169, in
obj = GetObject ("winmgmts:")
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client_init_.py", line 73, in GetObject
return Moniker(Pathname, clsctx)
File "D:\Splunk\Python-2.6\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client_init_.py", line 88, in Moniker
moniker, i, bindCtx = pythoncom.MkParseDisplayName(Pathname)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147217406, 'OLE error 0x80041002', None, None)
D:\Splunk\bin>
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