On Wed, 04 May 2011 09:49:45 -0400
Bob Hetzel <beh AT case DOT edu> wrote:

> >      I am trying to install the latest Win64 client downloaded from
> > bacula.org on a Windows 2008 server. The application does appear to
> > install correctly, but when trying to start the service it fails to
> > start and generates "Error 1067: The process terminated
> > unexpectedly".
> >
> >      I actually have gotten this error, on multiple client
> > versions, on all my different version (2k, 2k3, 2k8) Windows
> > servers for over 2 years now. I've not EVER been able to run Bacula
> > on Windows and really need some help figuring out why this is.
> I believe the bacula win64 client installer (and possibly the win32
> one too) is broken if you do a "Custom (not recommended)" install
> rather than the "Automatic" install.  It even says you'll have to
> edit the bacula-fd.conf file manually if you do that.
> 
> The problem is that the resulting config file has the placeholders
> rather than the values it's supposed to write into the file.  After
> running it, if you open the config file and replace the items
> surrounded by @ characters with meaningful values you should then be
> able to start the service and have it stay running.  I think Kern
> mentioned at some point the next version of Bacula will have an
> improved windows installer.
I'd like to second this -- I faced the same problem (with win32 and
win64 stable installers).

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