Today we’re happy to announce the release of Unity Asset Server 2.0! This new release is free for existing users of the Unity Asset Server and it features the following new features:
The Unity Asset Server can now be hosted on Windows (in addition to Linux and Mac OS X as always)!
The Unity Asset Server can now be hosted on Debian-based Linux distributions.
The Unity Asset Server now uses an updated version of PostgreSQL to add performance, security and stability.
When the Unity Asset Server is used with Unity 2.6 (and later) check-in time for large changesets are reduced.
There are tools to help simplify the backup and restoration of Asset Server databases.
If you want to learn more about the Unity Asset Server then please use the following links:
Is there any specific requirement for the Windows one to work?
Tried using it on my Windows Server 2008 Standard 64bit but I got an error during install ( Failed to call initialize database command ‘1326’ ) and later got the error that the Unity Asset Server service didn’t exist at all after install.
corespondingly, the AssetServerControl results in an unhandled .NET exception:
System.InvalidOperationException: Service Unity Asset Server was not found on computer ‘.’. —> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The specified service does not exist as an installed service
I also just tried to install the asset server and get the error "Failed to call initialize database command ‘1326’…
My system: WindowsXP Prof. Version 2002 Service Pack 3
@dreamora and jago3d
There shouldn’t be any limitations to the Windows configuration the server can be installed to (as long as it’s XP+). Could the two of you create bug reports and send me the case numbers (from the machines you are installing the server on if possible)? Then we can try to see why this happens on these two different setups (XP and Server 2008 64bit). Unfortunately we haven’t been able to reproduce this on the machines here.
is the bug report utility available on its own somewhere so we can use it to generate the bug report?
Otherwise please let me know what you need and I will collect the informations.
Generally its an out of the box installation more or less with the asset server beeing installed on another partition than the os
i used the bug reporting that can be found from the help menu in Unity.
My case is numbered as 309742.
The installer seems to crash while trying to initialise the database, at least this is the last message that is generated (when you select the “show detail” button on the installer.
I have several services running on my PC, could it be that it tries to use a port that is already in use by some other process? Which ports are used by the asset server?
I have the same problem as ‘dreamora’ and others above.
My workstation is Windows 7, 64-bit.
When attempting to install Asset Server (unity_asset_server-2.0.0.exe) after just spending $2000 USD for Pro + AS, I get the error message “Failed to call initialise database command ‘1326’”.
As above, the AS service itself is not running and cannot be started via the Asset Server Control Panel.
Tested it even up to the Administrator account + run as admin
Its not related to the rights but the installer itself.
The funny thing is that the service is beeing added to the windows (even win server 2008) firewall exception list.
But the installation of the service itself does not work (its not on the list), though I guess thats related to the DB initialize error
The asset server is not even beeing installed to the C:\Program Files / C:\Program Files (x86) folder so also none of the more commonly existing “program files + security” issues.
You can actually run the installer as admin too. Depending on the level of security you have enabled in windows 7 (I run this myself) some programs will not be installed correctly if they try to install services. The HTC Sync app is one such install that actually doesn’t complete correctly without admin rights (it installs a sync service that windows 7 simply deletes as violating your normal user install rights)
I’m always on admin priviledges to install things.
For the server I don’t even have a restricted account as it makes little sense at least to me, I only log in for maintenance (security updates, vmware update and similar) and those require the full set of priviledges to do anything.
VMware and other programs all worked fine on install and they have services too. (VMWare was originally installed for the asset server, but I’ve recently had a few not that nice problems with the vmware disk integrity on my raid 5 so I decided to wait for the 2.0 release to install it straight on windows instead)
So if I would have to guess, I would guess its the installer that uses some strange way of installing it as service that was deprecated post XP SP2 (the new security guidelines that existed since win 2k have been enforced with XP SP3 and Vista+)
So you are specifically logged in as Administrator using the admin password you set-up when you installed windows 7? Or are you logged in as an account with your name and admin rights?
I don’t have asset server but, my friend at work does. I installed it for him and it required that I specifically invoked the installer as “Run as admin” otherwise it was missing some services because windows didn’t install them. His user account is an admin account but, crucially is not root admin (that’s what run as admin does. It uses the system admin account and not your user admin account, which actually isn’t an admin account at all!).
But yes its the default Windows Server Administrator account.
All the stuff is listed above.
Its not the first time installing stuff since the earliest Vista betas, so I know a large amount (unlikely all as there are always some new) tricks to get stuff running.
But in this case its just the installer thats failing.
It starts up, then the intermediate silent installer comes with its own progress bar and then the db initialize error and no service is present. In addition PostgreSQL causes an application error event (id 0) in the Windows Application Event Logs and thats it.
The server OS is pretty much freshly setup after an unhappy chain of failures in the previous machine. So no “unfriendly remainders from the past”.
Not even an AV solution is installed that interfers the operation. (the access to the machine is highly restricted and primarily LAN where everything is at least single shielded)
Sounds like Vista / Win 7 + UAC enabled. In that case you are still an admin administration wise, but your usage and especially OS close modification right level is restricted.
just installed/upgraded to asset server 2.0 on my mac pro running os x 10.5.7
install beach-balled, and now after a restart the mac hangs on the gray screen and wont boot :-/
im trying to boot into safe mode and see what i can do, hopefully it’s just a bad install, but i figured i would post in case anyone else was having issues
