Aug 23, 2008

error in installing DB2 express-c 9.5 on vista

W0w i spent like 5 hours for the installation of DB2 on vista.
i hope nobody is as stupid as me but anyway i write this for people who forgot simple things if you simply download IBM DB2 Express-C on windows vista before installation of db2instance you get this error:

"DB29501E DB2 has detected an inconsistent environment please investigate
the following :"DB2INSTANCE:-2029059916"

and even you cant run the db2 command line tools or others which all they retrieve the same error.
If you search through internet you will see this error has so many reasons so but happily in this case answer is easy: you should run the file as administrator by right click on the setup file and that's it now everything is fine.



By the way somebody in the comments asked that she cant see the run as administrator. I am not quite sure about that but i think your vista is not ultimate or business version and you have to change your vista version in order to do programming stuff.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this post, it fixed my problem also!

Vista is a bit too paranoid at times about these things.

M1L1ND K0LEKAR said...

Thanks a tonne! Silly things, but can make huge difference to your day! I got it right the second time though, looks like IBM was never on talking terms while developing this for Windows, maybe it isnt even targetting Windows.

Angel3117 said...

How i could run the "DB2 Server.msi" as administrator on Vista (I try to install DB2 Express-C 9.5)? - by right click on the this setup file menu appears, which doesn't contain "Run as administrator" item. Give me some advice, please.

Angel3117 said...

By the way, see http://technet.microsoft.com/ru-ru/magazine/cc162321(en-us).aspx

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