Web installer fails to find ChocolateyInstaller.psm1

[DarwinJS]

Ran the web installer just now and got:

Import-Module : The specified module 'C:\Users\ProtectedAdmin\AppData\Local\Tem
p\chocolatey\chocInstall\tools\chocolateyInstall\helpers\chocolateyInstaller.ps
m1' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directo
ry.
At C:\Users\ProtectedAdmin\AppData\Local\Temp\chocolatey\chocInstall\tools\choc
olateysetup.psm1:46 char:16

• Import-Module <<<< $installModule -Force
• CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (C:\Users\Protec...yInstall
  er.psm1:String) [Import-Module], FileNotFoundException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : Modules_ModuleNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Comm
  ands.ImportModuleCommand

Then a bunch of failures on all follow chocolatey CMDLets used to setup

In the above folder there is only one .PSM1 called chocolateysetup.psm1.

The downloaded Chocolatey.zip does not contain the file either.

[ferventcoder]

It has to unpack it from choco, but to do that you need .NET Framework 4.0+ installed and able to be used. The installer attempts this but it may not be able to do so.

[ferventcoder]

Can you verify this is the issue?

[ferventcoder]

ping @DarwinJS

[DarwinJS]

Sorry Rob - been out for a week. I've had it happen several times more.

I believe I have isolated it to Windows 7 RTM.

When I started with a clean VM with no SP1 - it did not work. After reseting the VM and installing SP1, it did work.

Both tests were conducted on 32-bit - I don't have an x64 VM without SP1.

I'm not sure how far back you intend to go, but maybe if pre-SP1 is not supported, you might want to indicate the required service pack in documentation and then also have the installer error out with RTM. Although this would likely also affect 2008 R2, hypervisors templates have for 2008 R2, have SP1 applied.

I feel like I'm you're "oldest possible versions of Windows and PowerShell" tester - but I promise that that it has not been by design - just circumstance :)

D.

[ferventcoder]

Is it that you have to install sp1 to install .net4?

[DarwinJS]

I checked that and it seems like RTM should be OK for .NET 4.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=17851).

Also - if that is the problem, the .NET installer does not seem to be generating an error (but I didn't dig very deep). Are you putting on 4.0?

I am running another test to see if .NET is successfully installed.

[DarwinJS]

Ok, I ran the .NET version detector and it shows 4.0 installed. Folders are there. No errors.

The originally reported errors appear immediately after dot net install.

I figured out a restart does fix the situation - however, this is not required with any other post-SP1 scenario.

Hmm - with a restart fixing it I am thinking "edge case" - not sure if it is worth it for you to add warnings for RTM?

D.

[gep13]

.NET version detector

What is this, and where can I get it? 😄 I always end up digging around the folder structure, and looking at registry keys!

[ferventcoder]

The problem as I understand it is that even though .net 4 is installed, it is not usable without a reboot. Is that a fair assessment?

[DarwinJS]

Yes, with the qualification that I didn't fully verify that it was .NET
itself that needed the reboot - however, it is likely since there was a
"windows update" on both the shutdown and startup screens. Maybe for RTM
is applies some optional Windows updates?

Dot net version detector is NOT a .net program itself and can be found
here: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html

I wanted to do a chocolatey package, but it is a redirected URL rather than
a link right to the file name. I thought I saw a package done with one of
these - but can't remember where - do you know an example?

D.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Rob Reynolds notifications@github.com
wrote:

The problem as I understand it is that even though .net 4 is installed, it
is not usable without a reboot. Is that a fair assessment?

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[gep13]

@DarwinJS said...
Dot net version detector is NOT a .net program itself and can be found
here: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html

Thanks, hadn't seen that before.

[DarwinJS]

I packaged this for chocolatey.

I called it "dotnetversiondetector" rather than "netversiondetector"
because without the word "dot" it seems it could easily be mistaken for
something to do with networking rather than dot net.

Fyi,
D.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Gary Ewan Park notifications@github.com
wrote:

@DarwinJS https://github.com/DarwinJS said...
Dot net version detector is NOT a .net program itself and can be found
here: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html

Thanks, hadn't seen that before.

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#330 (comment).

[gep13]

@DarwinJS said...
I packaged this for chocolatey.

Noice!

[ferventcoder]

I feel like I'm you're "oldest possible versions of Windows and PowerShell" tester - but I promise that that it has not been by design - just circumstance :)

Actually unless you are going as far back as 2003 and XP (which is not supported) you are not quite there.

[johnnyramos]

I'm seeing this issue as well within our environment:

Extracting C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\chocolatey\chocInstall\chocolatey.zip to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\chocolatey\chocInstall...


7-Zip (A) 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18



Processing archive: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\chocolatey\chocInstall\chocolatey.zip



Extracting  _rels\.rels

Extracting  chocolatey.nuspec

Extracting  tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1

Extracting  tools\chocolateysetup.psm1

Extracting  tools\init.ps1

Extracting  tools\chocolateyInstall\choco.exe

Extracting  tools\chocolateyInstall\choco.exe.ignore

Extracting  package\services\metadata\core-properties\dd9b8525f38f4307833cdf92549fbcb8.psmdcp

Extracting  [Content_Types].xml



Everything is Ok



Files: 9

Size:       3780921

Compressed: 1268349

Installing chocolatey on this machine
STDERR: The specified module 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\chocolatey\chocInstall\tools\chocolateyInstall\helpers\chocolateyInstaller.psm1' was not loaded because no valid module file was found in any module directory.The term 'Install-ChocolateyEnvironmentVariable' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

This specific machine is Windows 10 - 10.0.10240.

[johnnyramos]

So, I just noticed that the 0.9.9 packages don't come with a helpers directory. I downloaded 0.9.8.23 for giggles and it had the helpers directory within the tools\chocolateyInstall.

0.9.8.23:

0.9.9:

[ferventcoder]

@johnnyramos choco unpackself --force

[ferventcoder]

No idea why Windows 10 would not work out of the box though.

[ferventcoder]

@johnnyramos You might subscribe to #347 - where we would perform the unpack prior to shipping.

[ferventcoder]

Closing this as fixed by association with #347.