MySQL Bugs: #35686: MySQL Instance Config Broken on 5.0 x64 builds (45, 51a)

Bug #35686	MySQL Instance Config Broken on 5.0 x64 builds (45, 51a)
Submitted:	30 Mar 2008 18:38	Modified:	31 Mar 2008 13:58
Reporter:	Marcos Boyington	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Instance Manager	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.45, 5.0.51a	OS:	Windows (Windows Server 2008 x64)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Downloaded the latest version of MySQL Install (51a), and then went to the archives and downloaded 45 as well.  Seems MySQLInstanceConfig.exe is broken, when I try to run it, get a strange error.

I noticed that the EXE is 1MB smaller than a working one.  Should be easy to reproduce.

How to repeat:
Download latest MySQL Install pcakage ( mysql-5.0.51a-winx64 ), run MySQLInstanceConfig.exe

Thank you for a problem report. Please, be more specific - what exact error message you got? Do you use XP x64 or 2003?

Message:

"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail."

Size of EXE: 2897kb

I got around the problem by grabbing the EXE from an older version of the install. Size of that EXE: 3387kb

Running on Windows Server 2008 x64, though I don't think this is the issue (unless the installer is doing some wonky detection and installing the wrong version of the exe)

Thank you for the bug report.

Same on Vista X64.

Sorry it is duplicate.

Duplicate of http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30823.