Monday, March 27, 2006
So Far So Good
The recovery from the weekend upgrade debacle is chugging along. I’m waiting for a still newer release to finish downloading before continuing, but the license error is solved, we have a license file for the timekeeping installs, and the main reason the client fails now (with a mere type mismatch error) probably has to do with my having restored the pre-upgrade database backup as instructed to do prior to doing the really new update. I may not have time to have all the workstations installed with the timekeeping software today, but even being able to start them today is a bonus.
I even got a support guy who believes in using e-mail when appropriate!
Update:
Spoke too soon. I restored the original data, ran the server setup of the very latest, and got told I had open prebills and it couldn’t install. I managed to get the same error once over the weekend, when I was still able to verify the setup was lying. We know beyond any doubt that there are no prebills, but it won’t install. So I had to zip the 1.5 GB of data and FTP it to them for special examination, and probably a casting-out spell that’ll be followed by return of the data to re-re-restore and try again. I was hoping, even maybe expecting, to be done by now and onto the next part. In a way I am, because I started the next part, which does work - yay - to fill the hurry up and wait time. I’m back to the computer in my office between tasks, looking at e-mail and contemplating what’s next.
Well, the next part works, no more license problem, but it takes a surprising length of time and then requires a reboot. Not good for nearly stealthily going from computer to computer doing installs in the midst of people’s workdays. Sigh…