Problems starting CrateDB on Windows

@nkev reported at https://github.com/crate/crate/pull/11101#issuecomment-793505283:

• Page title: Quick Install on Windows
• Page URL: https://crate.io/docs/crate/tutorials/en/latest/install-run/windows.html
• Source: https://github.com/crate/crate-tutorials/blob/master/docs/install-run/windows.rst

I’m not sure if this is relevant to this issue but I followed the instructions in URL above to install crate-4.4.2 on Windows 10 but no matter what I do I get the error JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set The JAVA_HOME variable is set:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> cd "C:\Users\me\Downloads\crate-4.4.2"
PS C:\Users\me\Downloads\crate-4.4.2> ./bin/crate
JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set
PS C:\Users\me\Downloads\crate-4.4.2> $env:JAVA_HOME
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.10
PS C:\Users\me\Downloads\crate-4.4.2> ./bin/crate.bat
JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set
PS C:\Users\me\Downloads\crate-4.4.2>

I tried restarting the computer and also tried crate.bat instead with the same result. What am I doing wrong?

_Originally posted by @nkev in https://github.com/crate/crate/issues/11101#issuecomment-793505283_

[amotl]

Dear Nuri,

we just integrated #11121, which will fix the start issue on Windows when using directory names with spaces for the next release of CrateDB. Again, thank you very much for reporting this flaw to us.

Currently, I can’t say much to the low disk watermark warning you might observe to be somehow sticky. In order to get more insights about it, I want to humbly ask you to share this on our community forum [1].

Attaching to your last question, I deliberately diverted that into #11125. However, the community forum [1] might also be the more appropriate place to discuss such questions.

I hope you are satisfied with my responses to that so far. So, let’s close this issue for the sake of being resolved on the main issue raised here.

Thank you very much again and with kind regards, Andreas.

[1] https://community.crate.io/

[nkev]

I think I have deleted enough files now for the installation to continue because it has gone under the low disk watermark and resharding (although there are no tables):

[2021-03-10T15:22:04,674][INFO ][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [Pointe Blanche] low disk watermark [85%] exceeded on [VsTVNne4Qu-iY_yeeMCl0Q][Pointe Blanche][C:\Users\Nuri Surname\Downloads\crate-4.4.2\data\nodes\0] free: 56.1gb[11.8%], replicas will not be assigned to this node
[2021-03-10T15:22:34,675][INFO ][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [Pointe Blanche] rerouting shards: [one or more nodes has gone under the high or low watermark]

The issue is, Powershell has been sitting on that last line for over an hour now. Is this normal?

The installation seems to have worked far enough for CrateDB to run:

Also, on the same LAN as this Windows desktop, I have my MacBook Pro running version v4.4.1 Trial (versus v4.4.2 Community on Windows). I was hoping they would automatically see each other and form a cluster. The MacBook has a single iss table from the getting started sample with only 3 records in it, but the Windows machine has no tables (nothing synced from the MacBook) because the cluster has not formed yet. Should I install v4.4.2 Community on my MacBook Pro?