MySQL Bugs: #42985: installer/configure fails. (application hang in event viewer)

Bug #42985	installer/configure fails. (application hang in event viewer)
Submitted:	18 Feb 2009 18:49	Modified:	7 Dec 2016 14:48
Reporter:	Rob N	Email Updates:
Status:	Unsupported	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.x, 5.5.13	OS:	Windows (XP SP3)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	configuration, freezing, hanging, installing, XP

Description:
Installing MYSQL after the configuration pages, straight after the the pressing of EXECUTE button, the installer/configuration wizard hangs with the task list not even started. Well is does on this machine.
Task manager reports No Cpu is used, memory in use by MYSqlInstanceConfig.exe  is 6976K.

Also hanged when trying to remove an instance of mysql. crashed out of the executable and tried again. worked ok the second time.?
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Event Viewer reports:
Hanging application MySQLInstanceConfig.exe, version 1.0.14.0, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.

Details 
Product: Windows Operating System 
ID: 1002 
Source: Application Hang 
Version: 5.2 
Symbolic Name: ER_HANG_LOG 
Message: Hanging application %1, version %2, hang module %3, version %4, hang address 0x%5. 

 
 
 

How to repeat:
Just try to configure or install mysql, click execute. hang. 
 

Suggested fix:
stop the installer from hanging.

Thank you for the report.

Is it really installer hangs, not mysqld itself? Please, also, indicate accurate minor version of MySQL you try to install.

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".

Image Name			User Name	CPU	W/S	Mem Pri	PP	
MySQLInstanceConfig.exe *32 	username	00	9808	3332K	158K	

NPP	Base Pr	Handles	Thrds	Description
16K	Normal	84	2	MySQLInstanceConfig.exe

Attempting to install on Windows 7 Home Prem. Sony Laptop system.
I'm learning SQL and just installing this to work through the tutorials. I've tried to install MySQL over and over again. It always goes off the rails in the config step. Have tried 5.5.12 and 5.5.13 with the same results. This is extremely frustrating. Up to this latest attempt it would fail trying to apply security settings. It kept telling me that it failed to connect to the database with password: NO. This time after extensive removal of all traces and cleaning the registry it got to the config tool and froze before getting to the first step. I've let it sit for close to an hour now. At first the Working Set was dropping slowly so I had some hope but it pegged at 8908 and has not moved in a very long time. Any other data I can add?

After fighting with this for the better part of a week I finally un-installed AGAIN and then installed MySQL to C:\MySQLServer5.5.13\ (no spaces anywhere in the path) and selected the default for the location of the Inno DB folder. When I clicked Execute on the wizard it stopped responding for some time but then actually finished! The service is running and I don't see any evidence of errors or problems.

Please, check if this still ever happens with recent versions, 5.5.16+.

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".

Posted by developer:
 
This relates to EOL (no longer supported) versions of MySQL Server and Windows. Furthermore, the MySQL Installer for Windows has taken over from the old plain msi installer. Thus closing.