So continuing with my Visual Studio 2008 installs (and how horrible the installation procedure is), I had a system that ran the Service Pack 1 install and seemed to hang at the end. Normally, I just schedule the install and let it do its thing with unattended setups and an auto-reboot at the end. I got a call from the user saying the SP1 was still installing and this was 5 hours later. I know the SP1 install takes forever, but 5 hours was a little much. So I tried to cancel the install but no luck, so I had to end task SPInstaller.exe.<\/p>\n
Off to the log files I go. Wait a minute…the SP1 log file is 5GB! What’s going on?! I wasn’t about to open such a huge file so I deleted all the log files and re-ran the install in non-unattended mode. Shortly after starting the install, it failed with an “Installation suspended, incomplete” message. I thought this meant something but in the end, all it means is that a previous install failed and it rolled some stuff back.<\/p>\n
So I ran the install again and this time, it went further, like normal. I noticed on other systems the log file would only grow to 20-30MB so I waited until the log file grew to about 50MB and then end tasked the installer again. I opened up the log file and the end was filled with this message over and over:<\/p>\n
Warning 1909. Could not create Shortcut Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt.lnk. Verify that the destination folder exists and that you can access it.<\/strong><\/p>\n Why couldn’t it create the shortcut? Who knows? Google, probably. I just searched for “warning 1909” and saw a bunch of stuff about the Office installer failing with this message. None of the fixes seemed to apply to me. I checked the permissions at C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs and everything seemed good. The VS2008 program folder existed and permissions were also normal.<\/p>\n Well, long story short, this forum thread<\/a> helped me resolve my issue (I guess this problem also occurs with VS2005). It was on the second page of my search and it’s weird that if I had searched for my message with quotes around certain parts, this result would’ve been hidden by Google.<\/p>\n Anyway, I looked at the system environment variables to see if the ComSpec variable was set incorrectly. And it sure was. It was…missing. Argh, why did the user do that for?! I recreated the ComSpec variable and set it to %SystemRoot%\\system32\\cmd.exe and re-ran the installer. Everything worked after that. I guess the installer uses that environment variable to determine how to create that command prompt shortcut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So continuing with my Visual Studio 2008 installs (and how horrible the installation procedure is), I had a system that ran the Service Pack 1 install and seemed to hang at the end. Normally, I just schedule the install and let it do its thing with unattended setups and an auto-reboot at the end. I got a call from the… Continue reading Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 install hangs near the end (warning 1909 command prompt lnk)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuonthis.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}