Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

Re:Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video] by jasode on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:27PM (#13813111)

Fyi... I just tried the offline download and after 34 minutes, it is hung and won't finish.

The command line I used:

  vs_Enterprise.exe --layout z:\VS2017_RTM --lang en-US

last lines of the console:

  ...
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=823168' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=833503' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=833501' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://download.microsoft.com/download/B/5/5/B55373E5-8948-41DF-B1D5-F60896104294/WinSdkInstall.ps1' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'
  Download of 'https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=838828' succeeded using engine 'WebClient'

stats of the target directory so far:

  2,631 Files, 1,005 Folders total  14,444,652,261 bytes

I previously got the offline download to complete with version RC1 in November 2016 but RC2 in Janurary 2017 always hung in the same spot. I didn't pursue RC2 troubleshooting since RTM would be available a month later and I hoped whatever problem with RC2 would be resolved in RTM.

Well, it still doesn't work. Please let the MS team know that there's something about the offline download ("--layout" option) that's fragile and prone to hang. I don't believe it's an issue with overloaded servers because when I tried multiple times with RC2, it always hung on the exact same file whether it was morning/night/ weekday/weekend. I suspect the current problem is similar.

I took a screenshot of the hung process for RC2 in January and it seems to hang right after downloading WinSdkInstall.ps1 which is similar to RTM behavior:

RC2 hung in January: http://imgur.com/a/uwfoj

RTM hung in March (today): http://imgur.com/a/QxqC3

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Re:Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video] by timsneath on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @09:01PM (#13817181)

Unfortunately the printed logs only show what has been downloaded, not what is currently downloading. I know - that's not very helpful in this case. It would be really useful to see the more detailed logs, which are stored in the %TEMP% folder. It might be that it's not hung at all - if it's a really large file that's being downloaded. If you're willing to mail me at [email protected], I'd be happy to work with you to grab your detailed logs and investigate further.

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Re:Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video] by jasode on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:13AM (#13819705)

Thanks for your reply. It helped me get past the problem.

I want to the %TEMP% folder and looked at dd_setup_2017??.log and saw that it last executed:

  Running: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe with parameters: -NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -InputFormat None -Command ...

I then went to Task Manager and noticed the powershell.exe command hanging with 0% cpu consumed.

I remembered that sometimes those commands hang on network paths so I ran "vs_Enterprise.exe --layout" again to local "C:\VS2017_RTM" instead of mapped "Z:\VS2017_RTM".

It then completed without hanging. The completed target folder has:

  1,901 Files, 765 Folders  total  22,171,951,890 bytes

It seems strange that the successful completion results in less files & folders but 8 more gigabytes. I assume some intermediate scripts cleaned up some files.

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Re:Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video] by timsneath on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:00PM (#13824255)

Great - so glad that you're up and running. Thanks for the update. We'll take this back and see if we can repro this in-house.

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Re:Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video] by timsneath on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:21PM (#13815020)

Thanks the report, @jasode. I'm bringing in a few folk to take a look.

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