Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE) service won't start?

Question

I went to www.infobright.com, downloaded Infobright Enterprise Edition (IEE), and installed it. However, the service won't start, and it gives me absolutely no hint as to what the error is and why.

Answer 1

Infobright is just MySQL with a custom engine that implements a column based database with high compression.

Go into C:\Program Files\Infobright\bin, and type:

mysqld --console

This starts Infobright in standalone console mode (rather than in service mode). The command line parameter "--console" pipes any errors to the console (rather than swallowing the errors to a file hidden somewhere on the hard drive). You will receive something similar to the following:

C:\Program Files\Infobright\bin>mysqld --console

Loading configuration for Infobright instance ...
Option: AllowMySQLQueryPath, value: 1.
Option: AutoConfigure, value: 0.
Option: CacheFolder, value: C:\Program Files\Infobright\cache.
Option: ControlMessages, value: 0.
Option: InternalMessages, value: 0.
Option: KNFolder, value: BH_RSI_Repository.
Option: KNLevel, value: 99.
Option: LicenseFile, value: <unknown>.
Option: LoaderMainHeapSize, value: 400.
Option: PushDown, value: 1.
Option: ServerMainHeapSize, value: 1300.
Option: UseMySQLImportExportDefaults, value: 0.
Infobright instance configuration loaded.
101223 19:05:44 [ERROR] Error: No License file found in default path.
101223 19:05:44 [ERROR] Please place License file iblicense-*.lic in directory C:\Program Files\Infobright\/.
101223 19:05:44 [ERROR] Plugin 'BRIGHTHOUSE' init function returned error.
101223 19:05:44 [ERROR] Plugin 'BRIGHTHOUSE' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
101223 19:05:44 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported table type: brighthouse
101223 19:05:44 [ERROR] Aborting
101223 19:05:45 [Note] mysqld: Shutdown complete

To fix this error, browse to http://support.infobright.com/Support/License_Keys/ and download a license key.

For the 64-bit version of Infobright, copy the .lic file to:

C:\Program Files\InfoBright

For the 32-bit version of Infobright, copy the .lic file to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\InfoBright

and you will get something like the following:

C:\Program Files\Infobright\bin>mysqld --console

Loading configuration for Infobright instance ...
Option: AllowMySQLQueryPath, value: 1.
Option: AutoConfigure, value: 0.
Option: CacheFolder, value: C:\Program Files\Infobright\cache.
Option: ControlMessages, value: 0.
Option: InternalMessages, value: 0.
Option: KNFolder, value: BH_RSI_Repository.
Option: KNLevel, value: 99.
Option: LicenseFile, value: <unknown>.
Option: LoaderMainHeapSize, value: 400.
Option: PushDown, value: 1.
Option: ServerMainHeapSize, value: 1300.
Option: UseMySQLImportExportDefaults, value: 0.
Infobright instance configuration loaded.
101223 19:13:05 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
101223 19:13:05 [Note] Infobright Enterprise Edition 3.4.2 is ready for connections.
socket: '' port: 5029 build number (revision)=IB_3.4.2_DPN128_r9255_11467(iee_eval - commercial)

At this point, we know that everything is working, so we can kill this process by pressing Ctrl-C, and start the service. It will now work.

Update:

The solution to this problem was taken from https://serverfault.com/questions/214435/error-1067-the-process-terminated-unexpectedly-when-trying-to-install-mysql-on