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The .msi installer freezes if you try to overwrite an existing Rust installation #26758

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tomaka opened this Issue Jul 3, 2015 · 7 comments

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tomaka commented Jul 3, 2015

I can't belive this issue wasn't reported. Many people on IRC had this problem at the release of 1.1.

If you have the version 1.0 of Rust installed for example in C:\Program Files\Rust, then try to install version 1.1 to the same location, the installer will freeze forever and you have to kill it.

The problem disappears if you uninstall the previous version first.

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steveklabnik commented Jul 3, 2015

/cc @brson @edunham
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abonander commented Jul 4, 2015

I'm having the opposite problem in #26765. In a non-default folder, the .msi installer just naively adds the library files to the current install, confusing rustc on which to use.

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brson commented Jul 6, 2015

Nominating because this is pretty bad.
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alexcrichton commented Jul 20, 2015

triage: P-medium

Would love to fix, but doesn't seem super high priority right now.

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tomaka commented Mar 4, 2016

I just installed the 1.9 nightly. The installer still froze, but only for about 30 seconds instead of forever.
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brson commented Aug 25, 2016

cc @vadimcn

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patricksjackson commented May 23, 2017

The broken update hasn't been reported since 1.1, almost two years ago. Does this still need a fix?

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