Bug #14285 MySQL Administrator shows old entries in 'Installed Services' & crashes sometim
Submitted: 25 Oct 2005 9:05 Modified: 25 Oct 2005 16:44
Reporter: Sandor Wonschik Email Updates:
Status: Can't repeat Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Administrator Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:1.1.4 OS:Windows (Windows XP SP2)
Assigned to: MySQL Verification Team CPU Architecture:Any

[25 Oct 2005 9:05] Sandor Wonschik 
Description:
First it seems that the uninstall process of mysql 4.1 was finished incomplete. After uninstall of 4.1 I installed the newest MySQL 5.0.15-nt. In the overview of installed services (to find on WinXP under: Computer Mangagement / Services and Applications / Services) there is still the 'MySql' service in the listing. It cannot be started, because the link behind the service is non existent after the uninstall. This is not nice but not critical.

In MySQL-Administrator the service 'MySql' is listet too, but marked as offline and cannot be started from here (of course ;-). The new installed service 'MySQL501' is up and running (that's expected).

Now, if I try to use the MySQL-Administrator to "Uninstall Service" 'MySql', I got an error message: Cannot delete service. That's ok.

But now If I switch to "Startup Variables" and change between 'MySQL501' and 'MySql' I got exceptions for both entries although the 'MySQL501' is up and running. And sometimes the MySQL-Administrator kills itself.

My 'workaround' is: I don't touch the old 'MySql' entry ...

How to repeat:
Please see the description.
[25 Oct 2005 9:09] Sandor Wonschik 
pictures

Attachment: MySQL-Admin.zip (application/zip, text), 194.98 KiB.
[25 Oct 2005 14:18] MySQL Verification Team 
If you try to use any server binary, says mysqld-nt.exe for to remove
the older service:

mysqld-nt --remove

The service is removed ?

Thanks in advance.
[25 Oct 2005 15:01] Sandor Wonschik 
Thanks for fast answer. :-)

Yesterday I installed and updated several applications. One of them was MySQL5. And I made several reboots after each installation. The effect described above never changed. 

Today I had to install some other applications (with reboot) and now the old service 'MySql' is gone ... can't explain why. So now I can't select the corrupt 'MySql' entry in the MySQL Administrator and I can't reproduce the described error.

Thank you for your help
:-) Sandor
[25 Oct 2005 16:44] MySQL Verification Team 
Thank you for the feedback.