WampServer

Yea-- I guess it is a problem with windows defender and/or the firewall that comes with it. I just installed WAMP briefly on this machine ( a small Acer web book NOT the one at the house that I use for development that one is the one with windows defender on it and is never hooked up to the internet ) and this one does not have windows defender on it but it does have XP Pro as the OS-- and the installation went fine without a hitch.
Again I am very, very interested in reading the guide that you have to correct this problem with windows defender-- which one is it ?
kind regards, mark_p

no, I don't have any guide about uac and defender, so google is your friend; for testing, you can disable each to find out which is the cause ;-)

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Don't mention it.

I solved this problem pretty easily

First encountered the problem with WampServer2.0f.exe on windows xp sp3 - worked fine on vista ultimate.

First, I uninstalled wamp server and deleted all DIRs other than the www DIR, then used registry mechanic to scan and fix registry problems on my PC, followed by a few manual registry edits by myself

Click start, run, type regedit and click OK.
Press F3 and enter wamp and click search - delete the result that pops up and press search again, repeat until all entries called wamp are removed.

Install WampServer2.0c.exe and everything is working fine so far



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2009 04:30PM by grez868.

This guy is TOTALLY KEWL-- thanks dude.

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I was able to solve this by doing the following after finding the solution somewhere(I don't remember):

Go into services.msc (start–>run–>services.msc)
Right click on wampmysqld and select properties
Select the “Log On” tab and check “Allow service to interact with the desktop.”

Voila!!! Everything should work great. Let me know if this works for you.

rtacadena Wrote:
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> I was able to solve this by doing the following
> after finding the solution somewhere(I don't
> remember):
>
> Go into services.msc
> (start–>run–>services.msc)
> Right click on wampmysqld and select properties
> Select the “Log On” tab and check “Allow
> service to interact with the desktop.”
>
> Voila!!! Everything should work great. Let me know
> if this works for you.

with "windows xp sp3" : resolved with this procedure. Thank you

Thanks for the tip, it works!

I believe I have found a work-around (that might also shine some light on the cause). I looked in the install folder of MySQL and found other .ini files. So I made a copy of the original 'my.ini' and a copy of 'small-my.ini'. I then deleted the original my.ini file and copied the small-my.ini file to my.ini. I was able to start the process numerous times successfully.

To make sure, I restored the original my.ini and the problem returned.

Basically, I initialized with the packages 'small-my.ini' and it worked. I am now going to start experimenting with what might be the root cause.

I hope this helps others!

STATISTICS:
Windows XP SP2 (fresh install)
WAMP 2.0f

OK - now I really think I got it!

I kept messing with the original 'my.ini' that comes with the default install. I found that I can get the mysqld service to start by adding 1 entry. Look for the following section and add the entry identified:

------ SECTION TO LOOK FOR ------
# The MySQL server
[wampmysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 64
sort_buffer_size = 512K
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M
thread_stack = 64K <-- ADD THIS LINE
basedir=J:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.1.30
log-error=J:/wamp/logs/mysql.log
datadir=J:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.1.30/data
---------

I did a complete uninstall and re-install, added the line and it worked. Verified that the service was running.

I've seen three proposed solutions to the problem in this thread:
1. Remove Windows Defender. (This seemed to work for me.)
2. Set the wampmysqld service properties to “Log On” - “Allow service to interact with the desktop.”.
3. Add "thread_stack = 64K" to my.ini.

Are these all related somehow that I don't see? Or are they coincidentally having a given system avoid the real problem?

Don