Security seting problems on installing May CTP of LINQ

Hello,

I've try to install the May CTP of LINQ but here is the error I get:

http://morpheus.developpez.com/temp/error.jpg

Anyone knows why I get this error

Thanks

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Security seting problems on installing May CTP of LINQ

CyberYodaCY
Work great on my xp ! Thanks
RamaKrishna
Fantastic workaround. Perfect. thanks :)
shadowMan20006

Hi Thomas. We decided to focus our efforts only on English installations of Visual Studio and Windows, given that this is just a preview. Your best bet for these errors is to create new groups with the names the installer is looking for. Sorry!

- Scott
BilleV
I also got an error installing the May CPT of LINQ

Microsoft .NET LINQ Preview (May 2006)

An error ocurred while applying security settings. Users is not a valid user or group. This could be a problem with the package, or a problem connecting to a domain controller on the network. Check your network connection and click Retry, or Cancel to end the install.

Try Again Cancel

I found the cause of the problem. My Windows is in spanish and there is no "Users" and "Power Users" group, they are named instead "Usuarios" and "Usuarios avanzados". If I create groups called "Users" and "Power Users" in my computer, LINQ Preview installs well. I checked inside the Users and Power Users groups created, and the installation did not add any user to that group. But I am afraid there could be some kind of problem because those groups are not mapped to the corresponding real groups I have in my computer.

To any MSFT LINQ developer: What are those groups used for Is there any chance this will affect me using the preview

Thanks,

Hector
FransM
I've got the same problem as stated before. I created user groups named "Power Users" and "Users" but nothing changed.

At home I have a localized version of OS and thus the problem appeared but at office we use an english version and the release installed without any problem.
VKT

Paul,

I'm sorry you ran into this issue. I just tried the same thing that you did on my home system and got the same error. I was able to work around the issue by going to Control Panel -> User Accounts and creating a new user called Power Users who is a computer administrator. Tomorrow, I'll look into if there are other ways to workaround the issue.

tadam - MSFT
Orphaned Zombie

The installer grants users in Users/Power Users group write access to the Samples folder so these users can open solutions and build and run the new LINQ samples.

Ting Liang

Microsoft Visual Basic Team
Jayaraman

Disclaimer: This is a totally unsupported workaround of the security settings issue.

' The following unsupported script modifies the installation
' database and removes entries in LockPermissions table that
' cause installation failure on certain OS configurations.

' Please save the script as "Patch LINQ Installer.vbs",
' put it in the same directory as "LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi"
' and run it once.

' Note - Running this script will invalidate the digital signature
' of the "LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi"

Option Explicit

Dim Installer
Set Installer = WScript.CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")

Dim DataBase
Set DataBase = Installer.OpenDataBase("LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi", 1)

Dim Sql
Sql = "DELETE FROM `LockPermissions`"

Dim View
Set View = DataBase.OpenView(Sql)
View.Execute
View.Close

DataBase.Commit

Ting Liang
Chad Moran
On Home XP I created a new user Power Users administrator, installed and after install deleted Power Users

During install an error occurred but did not seem to prevent install, or effect compile and build of C# programs.

An exception 'Runtime Error' has occurred in Script.
However, no debuggers are registered that can debug this exception. Unable to JIT debug.

Alberto Acosta

tadam - MSFT wrote:
Paul,

I'm sorry you ran into this issue. I just tried the same thing that you did on my home system and got the same error. I was able to work around the issue by going to Control Panel -> User Accounts and creating a new user called Power Users who is a computer administrator. Tomorrow, I'll look into if there are other ways to workaround the issue.

tadam - MSFT

In my case, I just create a group name Power Users, with nobody in that group and that work fine

But I've got another problem now, so I've opened another thread :)

Stefan Bauer
I've try the solution provided by HectirCruz and now, I get the message:

Microsoft .NET LINQ Preview (May 2006)

An error ocurred while applying security settings. Creator Owner is not a valid user or group. This could be a problem with the package, or a problem connecting to a domain controller on the network. Check your network connection and click Retry, or Cancel to end the install.

Try Again Cancel

Maybe Microsoft could provied a workaround for this.....
pmacdonald
Tadam,

Your solution worked for me as well. Thank you for the fix and the excellence work you and your team is doing. I haven't been this excited over a language since the light bulb went off and I got the point of Lisp/Scheme.

-Paul "Yeah... I'm a Geek" Greene
Chris Feilen
Sadly, I too am experiencing this error. However I'm running on...... Windows XP Home so I don't believe I can create the user groups as described in the work around post. Yeah Yeah I know, what the F am using Xp home for It came with the laptop when I bought it and I'm lazy and to be honest until now it never has been an issue, even with the last Linq preview.

Please provide some sort fix or workaround and keep up the great work.

-Paul Greene
Security seting problems on installing May CTP of LINQ

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