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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 23:00, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> *From:* Peter Laursen [mailto:peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011 21:52
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> *To:* Vladislav Vaintroub
> *Cc:* maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer MWL#55 finished.
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> But I do not think "NT Authority\Network Service is localized" (it only is
> in Czech and other tonguebreaking languages and also not from Vista onwards
> as far as I remember. In Vista/2008/7 localization only applies to GUI and
> not command syntax)
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> Well, I see what the bug was.. IT must be written NetworkService without
> space, not „Network Service“ as I did it (at least MSDN documents it so).
> I’ll check again the whole installer on German VM, and come back when I have
> something new.,
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> Also isn't 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM' what user account MySQL normally uses?
>  But using \Network Service may be an improvement .. I remember we had some
> discussions. :-)
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> Yes, there were some discussion indeed in the bugdb..
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=45216 (filed by you) for example  .System
> account is the most powerful account, it is the same as “root” on Unix.   That
> is, a bug in mysqld.exe (buffer overflow or something like that)  potentially
> compromises the whole machine.  How this could stay this way and pass all
> Sun and Oracle security reviews, is something I completely fail to
> understand.
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> NetworkService has by far less privileges,  it does not need password and
> it can talk Kerberos (good property, as I think at some point Windows
> authentication will be in Maria as well).  SQLServer is using
> NetworkService to run, so  it can’t be wrong.
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Then I have a good question! If I install MariaDB with "mysqld -install'
command from the .zip distribution under what user account will the service
run (SYSTEM or NETWORK) ?  I guess that in this respect MariaDB code is not
different from MySQL? :-)

And also there seems to be no 64 bit .zip?



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> If you need more information from my system just ask for a registry key
> dump or the output from some specific command.
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> Thanks for your offer, I think I will find that out, but will also come
> back if there are any questions.
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> -- Peter
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 20:30, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> It is a Danish Windows (Home Premium 64 bit).
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 20:07, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Thanks Peter.
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> This might be helpful.  Is this a localized Windows? Asking because error
> you  get is ERROR_INVALID_SERVICE_ACCOUNT, and the service account is NT
> Authority\Network Service, which is “well-known” and always there. However I
> recall there was some PITA with localized names for standard users mentioned
> in source code in other open source projects (e.g. Wix).  I was never
> affected since I do not run localized Windows, though now I think I should
> give them a try from time to time;)
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> *From:* Peter Laursen [mailto:peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011 19:52
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> *To:* Vladislav Vaintroub
> *Cc:* maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> *Subject:* Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer MWL#55 finished.
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> I am sorry .. no luck either this time.  I executed: "C:\m>msiexec /i
> mariadb-5.2.5-winx64.msi /l*v log.txt"
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> It looks like it is the service creation that fails .. excerpt
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> CAQuietExec: Running bootstrap
> CAQuietExec: Removing default user
> CAQuietExec: Changing root password
> CAQuietExec: Creating my.ini file
> CAQuietExec: Registering service
> CAQuietExec: FATAL ERROR: CreateService failed (1057)
> CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070001: Command line returned an error.
> CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070001: CAQuietExec Failed
> CustomAction CreateDatabase returned actual error code 1603 (note this may
> not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
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> (full installation log attached).
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> I specified service name 'maria52' and no such service exist. Port
> specified is 3310 what is not in use. Selected default path for
> installation. I am administrator user of course and UAC is disabled.
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> -- Peter
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 19:20, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> This could be a bug I found and fixed  yesterday evening.  It turns out I
> did an superfluous LocalFree() in mysql_install_db.exe. Interestingly, it
> has crashed rather seldom, it was the first time I have seen it.
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> Fixed here :
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maria-captains/maria/5.2-windows-packaging-upgrade/revision/2929.
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> I updated msi installers after the fix  here
> http://cid-ff0c950417b4f8a4.office.live.com/browse.aspx/share . I would
> appreciate if you could give new MSI’s  a try . Make sure to uninstall what
> you currently have prior to this experiment .
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> To trace what is happening in installation, a log file can be helpful. To
> get a log,  issue
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> msiexec /i mariadb-5.2.5-win32.msi /l*v log.txt
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> on the command line. This will launch setup and write  some interesting
> (and lots of uninteresting) info into log.txt. If an executable launched by
> MSI crashes  (I presumably it was the case here), the information would be
> sparse,  but at least one would know at what step installation did a
> rollback, which exe has crashed and what it has written to output prior to
> crash.
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> Wlad
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> *From:* Peter Laursen [mailto:peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011 18:46
> *To:* Vladislav Vaintroub
> *Cc:* Kristian Nielsen; serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
> maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> *Subject:* Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer MWL#55 finished.
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> sorry .. it was 32 bit installer!
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:43, Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> hmmm .. installer rolls back.  Why?
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> 64 bit build on 64 bit Win7 (UAC disabled). Default file path.  No
> conflicts with ports or service name specified.  After rollback there is no
> track left.
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> -- Peter
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> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 18:05, Vladislav Vaintroub <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kristian Nielsen [mailto:knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Dienstag, 1. Februar 2011 14:59
> > To: Vladislav Vaintroub
> > Cc: maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Michael
> Widenius
> > Subject: Re: [Maria-developers] Windows installer MWL#55 finished.
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> > "Vladislav Vaintroub" <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > > Wizard is an MFC application. I'm sorry for that, but my Windows C/C++
> GUI programming experience is not only rusty (prior to
> this
> > > WL last time I used it was more than  a decade ago), it is also
> restricted to MFC only. Being MFC application, it will require
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> > > least VS Professional to build.  There is no MFC in  free Visual Studio
> Express edition,  nor in free Windows SDK.  Build and
> > > packaging process will handle missing MFC gracefully (build won't try
> to compile upgrade wizard,  package won't include it , and
> > > installer won't  start it at the end of installation).
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> > What license are we distributing the wizard source code under?
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> > The reason I ask is that because of the above dependency, GPL may not be
> > appropriate (and since it sounds like a new application, nor is it
> > necessary). So we might consider another license, eg. BSD or if prefered
> some
> > other more copy-left license. Or just GPL-with-MFC-exception.
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> > I don't really have an opinion myself for one license or the other, I
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> > wanted to point out the issue to make sure it is considered by those that
> do
> > care. Since it sounds like if we just use GPL, we may be releasing
> something
> > that formally others cannot redistribute without violating the license.
> Which
> > I think we should avoid, even if we're obviously not planning to sue
> anyone
> > over it ...
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> Not sure I'm correct person  to start discussions over the of GPL, I think
> I'm not qualified.
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> I do know there is a plenty of established open source projects that use
> MFC, including GPLv2, such as different incarnations of
> Tortoise (SVN,CVS, BZR, HG).
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> >From my point of view,  it is just a  system library. It came bundled with
> compiler, just like other library CRT which is non-GPL
> that we use extensively for quite important functionality like strcpy() or
> say fopen().  Maybe this explanation will satisfy GPL
> purists. I do not think CRT , MFC , ATL (libraries that come bundled with
> Visual Studio) have any written license, at least I have
> never seen one. The source code is available, and installed together with
> Visual Studio.  If  one needs to redistribute one of this
> libraries  as DLLs, there is Microsoft EULA that basically allows inclusion
> into any software . But we do not even do that, as we
> link Visual Studio libraries (CRT, and also MFC now) statically, MySQL-ish
> way.
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> >  - Kristian.
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