Bug #66304 Cannot install 5.1.65
Submitted: 10 Aug 2012 10:56 Modified: 22 Sep 2012 7:47
Reporter: Peter Laursen (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.1.65 (64 bit) OS:Windows (7/64)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc, regression

[10 Aug 2012 10:56] Peter Laursen
Description:
Something must have gone wrong with packaging or installer script here.  5.1.65 is listed as available here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html and it downloaded from mirror OK (file is mysql-5.1.65-winx64.msi).

I have 5.1.63 installed.  But in order to uninstall it looks for the 5.1.62 installer. this is plain nonsense. Because

1) Why look for 5.1.62 installer when it is 5.1.63 that should be replaced? (I did check that "SELECT VERSION();" returns "5.1.63-community")

2) Why will it need an old installer to upgrade to current version.  This was never required before when upgrading with the .msi installer.

How to repeat:
See above.

additionally I will upload 2 images.

Suggested fix:
Make the 5.1x MIS isntaller work as before this 5.1.65.
[10 Aug 2012 10:57] Peter Laursen
lInstaller is looking for 5.1.62

Attachment: install.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 64.58 KiB.

[10 Aug 2012 10:58] Peter Laursen
final error before installer exits

Attachment: install2.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 14.67 KiB.

[10 Aug 2012 11:23] Peter Laursen
Corrected mistyped OS information
[15 Aug 2012 7:42] Peter Laursen
Any progres on this?  Is this reproducible other places than on my system?
[19 Aug 2012 13:08] Valeriy Kravchuk
I've tried 5.1.65 .msi on one of my Windows XPs (32-bit) with older 5.1.x installed before, but had not noted anything similar to your report. Will try on several others next week.
[19 Aug 2012 13:19] Peter Laursen
I do not exclude the posibility that I have upgraded 5.1.52>>5.1.53 by copying files from the 5.1.53 .zip package (sometimes I need fast fixes for the complete installer mess with MySQL over the last 6-12 months).  Would that explain?
[22 Sep 2012 1:52] MySQL Verification Team
I installed 5.1.63. using the msi package then upgraded with 5.1.65 (msi too) without problems then I guess you did an upgrade manually according your last comment so the msi package gives that nonsense message.
[22 Sep 2012 7:47] Peter Laursen
OK .. let us close.  I am not able to reconstruct exactly what happened before.