Here's how I ran into this problem:
- I migrated an old Pulse instance to a new Pulse instance
- I started Pulse. The web page redirected me to
http://pulsebox:8080/startup/starting.action
- I decided I really wanted a brand new install.
- I killed Pulse, removed .pulse and the database, and restarted pulse
- I refreshed my web page, which was still on "starting.action"
- Starting never seems to finish
- Navigating to
http://pulsebox:8080 leads to setup/setupWizard.action page--apparently it needs an admin user.
starting.action (and all other pages) should have redirected me to setupWizard.