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Title: Install on Windows Vista locks up
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Assigned To: Nosy List: loewis, michael_lucas, plathem (3)
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Created on 2006-06-26 11:15 by michael_lucas, last changed 2006-09-11 12:03 by loewis.

Messages (5)
msg28915 - (view) Author: Michael Lucas (michael_lucas) Date: 2006-06-26 11:15 
I have had problems trying to install this version on 
Vista. When the install gets to the verifying disk 
space requirements the system locks up. It does not go 
any further. I have to cancel the instalation of 
python. The only way I have got around this is to 
install an older version of python (version 2.3.5) 
this version does work, but there are newer versions 
that I want to work with on my system. If anyone has a 
work around for this please contact me at 
michael.lucas@us.army.mil
msg28916 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-06-29 18:48 
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I can confirm the problem, but I doubt I can do much about it.

In fact, I believe this is a bug in Vista/Windows Installer
4.0.  The installer GUI waits for the CostingComplete
property to be set, but this never happens.

If you are a beta tester, please make a bug report to Microsoft.
msg28917 - (view) Author: Pat Lathem (plathem) Date: 2006-07-07 01:51 
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FWIW, this can be worked around by using the command-line
MSI installer:

msiexec /i python-2.4.3.msi TARGETDIR="C:\Program
Files\Python24"
ALLUSERS=1 /qb

Found that here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-June/347402.html
msg28918 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-07-07 05:08 
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That's actually no surprise: /qb disables the user
interface, so that the problematic interaction is skipped
entirely.
msg28919 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-09-11 12:03 
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It appears that this problem has been fixed in Vista RC1.
Closing this report as third-party bug.
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