I installed Splunk on a Windows 7 but localhost:8000 not opens. In there is service in splunkd but there are no splunkweb in processlist. var\logs\splunk.log has no any "crash" it.
When i click on shorcut to lunch Splunk, i see cmd window:
"waiting for splunkweb to start..."
There was a possible solution for a similar issue answered here:
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/38246/splunkweb-is-not-starting
Hope this helps.
There was a possible solution for a similar issue answered here:
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/38246/splunkweb-is-not-starting
Hope this helps.
Hi @lelikflegma
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Patrick
Thanks it works for me!
splunkweb not started and won'ts. In logs i see:
The instance's SvcRun() method failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\win32\win32serviceutil.py", line 835, in SvcRun
self.SvcDoRun()
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin\SplunkWebService.py", line 39, in SvcDoRun
from splunk.appserver.mrsparkle import root
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\splunk\appserver\mrsparkle\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
from lib.decorators import *
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\splunk\appserver\mrsparkle\lib\decorators.py", line 2, in <module>
import cherrypy
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\cherrypy\__init__.py", line 161, in <module>
from cherrypy import _cptools
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\cherrypy\_cptools.py", line 226, in <module>
from cherrypy.lib import cptools, encoding, auth, static, tidy
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\site-packages\cherrypy\lib\static.py", line 2, in <module>
mimetypes.init()
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\mimetypes.py", line 355, in init
db.read_windows_registry()
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\mimetypes.py", line 259, in read_windows_registry
for ctype in enum_types(mimedb):
File "C:\Program Files\Splunk\Python-2.7\Lib\mimetypes.py", line 249, in enum_types
ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: invalid continuation byte
%2: %3
Check if the splunkweb service is running. Start->Run->services.msc