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[victorf]

Attempted to install 4.1 Framework and received fatal error 1324 "The Path Program Files contains an invalid character".
Now what do I do? I do have a screen shot of the error message! I have never had any problem installing anything on this computer. C# install went OK.

Any enlightenment will be appreciated.

Vic

Victor Fraenckel
KC2GUI
windswaytoo ATSIGN gmail DOT com

[Chris Walker]

Hi Vic, Can you post the screenshot? Also, are you doing the default installation or did you give it a specific installation path? Chris

[victorf]

Hi Vic,

Can you post the screenshot? Also, are you doing the default installation or did you give it a specific installation path?

Chris

Chris,

Thanks for the reply!

I was doing the default install.

I have attached the screen shot.

Vic

Attached Files

•  SDK Install Error.jpg   36.61KB   27 downloads

[Chris Walker]

Hi Vic, Out of curiosity, do you know the path to your Program Files directories (the regular and 32-bit ones--if you're running 64-bit Windows)? I have pinged a member of the .NET MF team to help determine the best way to resolve this as well... Chris

[victorf]

Hi Vic,

Out of curiosity, do you know the path to your Program Files directories (the regular and 32-bit ones--if you're running 64-bit Windows)?

I have pinged a member of the .NET MF team to help determine the best way to resolve this as well...

Chris

Chris,

I am not sure what you are asking here. My program files directory is on the system (F drive on my machine) drive and the path would be F:/Program Files. I am running 32 bit Windows XP

I appreciate the ping and I am looking forward to getting my problem fixed!

Vic

[pascal06]

Just a little check. Often, installer use the EV ProgramFiles to know where it is. So, open a cmd and type : echo %ProgramFiles% You should see F:\Program Files in your case. If not, you probably found what's happen, Pascal

[Chris Walker]

Chris,

I am not sure what you are asking here. My program files directory is on the system (F drive on my machine) drive and the path would be F:/Program Files. I am running 32 bit Windows XP

I appreciate the ping and I am looking forward to getting my problem fixed!

Vic

Hi Vic,

A request from the installer team... Are you familiar with running command-line programs? If so, can you switch to your installer directory and run the following two commands?

Msiexec /l* mylog.txt /i MicroFrameworkSDK.MSI
msiexec /liwearucmopvx! completelog.txt /i MicroFrameworkSDK.MSI

And then could you send the generated log files to me (or attach them here)?

If you're not familiar with the command-line, I'd be happy to give you a call and walk you through it. Unfortunately, there aren't too many ways to diagnose installer issues without generating logs and such...

Chris

[victorf]

Hi Vic,

A request from the installer team... Are you familiar with running command-line programs? If so, can you switch to your installer directory and run the following two commands?

Msiexec /l* mylog.txt /i MicroFrameworkSDK.MSI
msiexec /liwearucmopvx! completelog.txt /i MicroFrameworkSDK.MSI

And then could you send the generated log files to me (or attach them here)?

If you're not familiar with the command-line, I'd be happy to give you a call and walk you through it. Unfortunately, there aren't too many ways to diagnose installer issues without generating logs and such...

Chris

Chris,

Again, Thanks for the reply.

I have attached a screen shot of the command line executions of echo %ProgramFiles%, requested by Pascal06, which verifies that the ProgramFiles folder location is F:/ProgramFiles and of the first execution of Msiexec. Because of the error message shown, I was reluctant to run the second execution. I hope that this helps.

I look forward to hearing from you again soon.

Vic

Attached Files

•  MSIExec1.jpg   32.53KB   15 downloads

[Chris Walker]

Vic, Somehow an extra period snuck into your command-line there (MicroFramework.SDK.MSI <-- no period before SDK)... Could you remove the period and try again? Thanks! Chris

[victorf]

Vic,

Somehow an extra period snuck into your command-line there (MicroFramework.SDK.MSI <-- no period before SDK)... Could you remove the period and try again?

Thanks!

Chris

Chris,

No difference. I have included the new screenshot. I am not sure what I am doing here. The SDK is on my desktop. Will that make a difference? If so, where should it go?

Vic

Attached Files

•  MSIExec2.jpg   29.04KB   12 downloads

[Chris Walker]

No difference. I have included the new screenshot. I am not sure what I am doing here. The SDK is on my desktop. Will that make a difference? If so, where should it go?

Vic, copy the SDK to the directory that you're using (F:\Documents and Settings\Victor). Or change to the desktop directory where the SDK is at... Either way should be good.

Chris

[victorf]

Vic, copy the SDK to the directory that you're using (F:\Documents and Settings\Victor). Or change to the desktop directory where the SDK is at... Either way should be good.

Chris

Chris,

I navigated to F:\Documents and Settings\Victor\Desktop and ran MSIExec once again. This time the program started and then received the error as noted in the screen shot in the zip file attached here. A logfile mylog.txt was created and it is in the attached zip too!

I hope this helps.

Vic

Attached Files

•  error.zip   54.69KB   4 downloads

[Chris Walker]

Hi Vic, Can you run the second command to generate the "complete log" too? msiexec /liwearucmopvx! completelog.txt /i MicroFrameworkSDK.MSI Thank you very much, Chris P.S. What is your H drive?

[victorf]

Hi Vic,

Can you run the second command to generate the "complete log" too?

msiexec /liwearucmopvx! completelog.txt /i MicroFrameworkSDK.MSI

Thank you very much,

Chris

P.S. What is your H drive?

I have attached the screen shot and the error log. Are we getting any closer to a resolution? My H drive is for my significant other to use for her stuff. My hard drive it partitioned into F:, G: and H: where F: is the system drive.

Vic

Attached Files

•  Error1.zip   60.64KB   4 downloads

[Chris Walker]

Hi Vic, I've passed your log files onto the .NET MF team. They may need some additional info, but I'm hoping they have an easy solution (or a workaround to get you up and running). Thanks for generating these logs. Let's see what we can find out... Chris