[SOLVED] AWS Greengrass installation on windows: "Cannot create all required directories"

AWS Greengrass installation on windows: "Cannot create all required directories"

I'm trying to install Greengrass (V2) on my Windows computer (have to work with Windows, and can't use Docker because it is a Windows Enterprise license). I followed the tutorial given in the Greengrass dashboard, meaning:

I entered my access keys
created the ggc_user (i can see it in the user management), saved the credentials with psexec
downloaded the zip package and installed it with the provided cmd line

But it always returns the following error:

Error while trying to setup Greengrass Nucleus
java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot create all required directories
        at com.aws.greengrass.lifecyclemanager.KernelCommandLine.initPaths(KernelCommandLine.java:191)
        at com.aws.greengrass.lifecyclemanager.KernelCommandLine.lambda$parseArgs$0(KernelCommandLine.java:147)
        at com.aws.greengrass.config.Topic.subscribe(Topic.java:50)
        at com.aws.greengrass.lifecyclemanager.KernelCommandLine.parseArgs(KernelCommandLine.java:147)
        at com.aws.greengrass.lifecyclemanager.Kernel.parseArgs(Kernel.java:591)
        at com.aws.greengrass.easysetup.GreengrassSetup.performSetup(GreengrassSetup.java:296)
        at com.aws.greengrass.easysetup.GreengrassSetup.main(GreengrassSetup.java:269)
Caused by: java.nio.file.attribute.UserPrincipalNotFoundException
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsUserPrincipals.lookup(WindowsUserPrincipals.java:147)
        at java.base/sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystem$LookupService$1.lookupPrincipalByGroupName(WindowsFileSystem.java:250)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.platforms.windows.WindowsPlatform$WindowsFileSystemPermissionView.aclEntries(WindowsPlatform.java:413)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.platforms.windows.WindowsPlatform$WindowsFileSystemPermissionView.<init>(WindowsPlatform.java:326)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.platforms.windows.WindowsPlatform.getFileSystemPermissionView(WindowsPlatform.java:458)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.platforms.Platform.setPermissions(Platform.java:167)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.platforms.Platform.setPermissions(Platform.java:129)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.Permissions.setRootPermission(Permissions.java:93)
        at com.aws.greengrass.util.NucleusPaths.setRootPath(NucleusPaths.java:99)
        at com.aws.greengrass.lifecyclemanager.KernelCommandLine.initPaths(KernelCommandLine.java:170)
        ... 6 more

I couldn't find anything usefull in the documentation.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

This is a bug in Greengrass which means that it can only be used on English language systems right now. We now have a pull request to fix it so it will work with any language. https://github.com/aws-greengrass/aws-greengrass-nucleus/pull/1150