Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

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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