posted 12 years ago
I think what happens is this:
During installation, Glassfish checks to see whether you already have Python installed.
If not, then it creates a directory, python2.4-minimal, in C:\glassfish3\pkg (or wherever you're installing Glassfish).
But if you have Python already, then it doesn't create this directory.
However, when you then try to start the Update Tool, it looks in C:\glassfish3\pkg\python2.4-minimal for something, and when it can't find that directory, it falls down.
Setting the environment variable to the location of your existing Python installation doesn't seem to work.
Eventually, I gave up on that, and just uninstalled Glassfish and Python, then reinstalled Glassfish.
Now Update Tool starts up fine.
I guess I can reinstall Python, too, but I haven't done so yet.
It would be better if I'd somehow got the the environment variable to work, though.
Don't give up the day job.
(It's a valuable opportunity to catch up on sleep.)