MySQL Bugs: #26291: Installer reports "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Bug #26291	Installer reports "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
Submitted:	12 Feb 2007 16:06	Modified:	21 May 2007 7:07
Reporter:	Tim Salter	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / NET	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.3	OS:	Windows (XP SP2)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	installation

Description:
When running the installer, the progress bar proceeds to almost 100% then report the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
Installation then unwinds.

System log:

Product: MySQL Connector Net 5.0.3 -- Error 1001. Object reference not set to an instance of an object., (NULL), (NULL), (NULL).
0000: 7b 37 33 39 34 43 31 32   {7394C12
0008: 33 2d 43 41 43 43 2d 34   3-CACC-4
0010: 41 44 32 2d 38 32 42 38   AD2-82B8
0018: 2d 43 36 39 39 32 31 33   -C699213
0020: 31 41 46 30 38 7d         1AF08}  

How to repeat:
Just run the installation again.

Have tried uninstalling all other MySQL drivers, running with .Net 1 installed & without in addition to .net 2.

I was running 1.0.8, and facing the same issue, and tried several uninstall, delete mySQL directory, even removed mysql references in registry before trying reinstall of mysql followed by mysql connector. I am not successful. I having this problem for 4 weeks now. And fed up with mySQL.

Here is what is recorded in event log:
The description for Event ID ( 11001 ) in Source ( MsiInstaller ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Product: MySQL Connector Net 5.0.3 -- Error 1001. The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it, (NULL), (NULL), (NULL).

Thanks for making it S1 (Critical).
It is nearly more than 6 weeks since the problem started, hope someone soons picks it up and gives a solution or work around soon.!!! 
(:-)

Hi Tim and thanks for your report. Do you have NET FW 1.0 *and* 2.0 on your machine or just one of them (which one)?

.Net installed versions are:

.Net Framework 2.0
.Net Compact Frameowrk 2.0
.Net Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 Developer

Hi Tim. 
I am at loss here. This seems to be machine specific as I can't find any report of troubles like this nor am I able to reproduce this behavior on my machines. Seems to me c/NET installation is picking up some old settings and/or you need to download .msi again. Is there a SW using it while you are installing?

Tim

Can you tell me if you have any commented sections in your machine.config file inside the DbProviderFactories section?

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

Tim, I thought this was critical(?). Please provide info Reggie asked for.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

Tim, I would still like the info Reggie asked for so we can try to figure out what happened:
"Can you tell me if you have any commented sections in your machine.config file
inside the DbProviderFactories section?"

In any case, you being able to work is good news.

Tim, that's after successful install. What about old, unsuccessful, one? Without it we might as well close this report as the problem is solved.

Hi Tim. There seems to be a problem with this report and/or BugsDB. All of your posts are marked as "private" and not delivered to me by e-mail... Did you intentionally set todays posts to private or can I revert them to public?

Tim, yes, you're right, it's visible only to MySQL staff. On the other hand, me not receiving your private posts is a bug in BugsDB...
I will ask Reggie to recheck on this.

Tim

I believe this was caused by comments in machine.config.  This should be fixed with 5.0.7.  If so, please close out this bug report.

Thanks!

Tim ?

MySQL tell me this is fixed in 5.0.7. Due to comments in machine.config.

Tim, glad it works now.