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Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

alex kamenev — Fri, 26 May 2006 07:14:44 GMT

Hi all,

I cannot install Atlas either - I tried to download it several times from different locations, cleaned up IE cache but with no success. I've never faced with such problems before, probably Atlas team should re-release the package but with different name and location?

Thanks.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Kevin Daly — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:50:09 GMT

I finally managed to download a good version a few days ago.

eyeborg: I think you may have just got lucky and it just happened to be when you'd given up saving the file first - when it was failing for me, attempting to run the install without saving it first caused it to come up with a security error (missing certificate I think from memory) - I think the person who mentioned earlier about "Unknown publisher" was onto something there: that's definitely one difference between the version that works and the one that doesn't.

I don't know if dud files were being cached on a proxy server somewhere or what, it was very strange.

But all's well that ends.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

eyeorg — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:43:52 GMT

Had the same problem here, over and over, no matter what/when I downloaded the AtlasSetup.msi file it was always corrupt.

I was able to get around by doing the following:

Instead of "saving" the download the my desktop and then running the .MSI file, I just "opened" the file using IE. Not sure why it worked, but it worked!

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

richarde — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:33:04 GMT

Glad to hear it!

I've also heard from the team that clearing your browser cache first may also solve the problem so others having problems may want to give that a try.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Leestriker — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:39:15 GMT

i solved it

read this

first Perfectly uninstall the previous version of Atlas (06 Jan/06 March)

second Clean the registry (ex. use registry cleaning program)

finally Attempt to install again

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Leestriker — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:30:16 GMT

Solved it!!

first Perfectly uninstall the previous version(06 Jan or 06 March)

ex) remove that and start registry cleanning program (if u feel worry about that please reboot ur computer)

Second Attempt again!

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

yonghp — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:23:31 GMT

I had same problem and spent a day to install April CTP.

And, yesterday, I can finally download the CTP release which is installed correctly.

The problematic install file can be identified easily by looking at the publisher field of "Security Warning" dialog which pops up when I run the MSI on Win 2003 SP1.

The publisher field shown on the Security Warning dailog was "Unknown Publisher".

For the working version, it should be "Microsoft Corporation".

Hope this help.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Kevin Daly — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:42:22 GMT

I appreciate that.

If it helps to define the problem (and what it isn't, which is always handy to know), I've since tried to install it on a VM and my PC at work (including a fresh download), neither of which have WinFX bits or any other betas or CTPs installed, just VS2005. Exactly the same result every time.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

richarde — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:12:40 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. I'm checking to see what might be different between the April and March CTP releases that might explain this behavior for some users but not for others. We'll rerelease if we can figure out the problem and fix it.

-Rich

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Ken Azuma — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:30:04 GMT

Me, too. I installed the newest winFX runtime and win SDK on same environment, it doesn't matter?

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Kevin Daly — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:42:08 GMT

I forgot to mention: while I've mostly been trying from IE, I did do the download once from Firefox, with the same result.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

Kevin Daly — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:40:42 GMT

I get the same error (same cab file reference) every time I try - I've tried multiple times, I've used different speeds and I tried once from a different machine.

Interestingly, the one time I tried running the install directly from the download rather than saving first it failed with an error about not having a valid certificate.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

cathsfz — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:11:50 GMT

I tried to re-download the file from download.microsoft.com by IE for more than 5 times, and still got a "corrup cabinet file". And I try to download it from fileforum.betanews.com, still "corrup cabinet file". I thought that's because there's something wrong with the proxy of the campus and I tried to download it at home, and still got nothing better.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

LeMerovingian — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:07:43 GMT

I noticed that the installation was successfull when using IE to download the msi file instead of Firefox.

Re: April CTP Install Error: Corrupt Cabinet File

chauey — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:43:54 GMT

Another teammate, instead of choosing the dialup connection on the dropdownlist of the download page, used the cable connection... not sure if that made a difference or if he just had a better cleaner luckier connection...