Spark MSI hangs/takes agggessss

[elliottmarter]

So I have the latest spark MSI going on in MDT with /passive /norestart but I will come back to some (not all) PCs like an hour later and it is still sitting there on "Installing Spark"

 

with this window up

 

 

and it stays like that for a long time (I think I've seen up to an hour) whereas other it may take some time but it goes on without much hassle.

 

and occasionally it will throw some kind of .dll error and say "the installation will now terminate"

 

I am not actually changing the application in MDT at all...it just seems totally random as to when it will play up.

 

anyone else found this?

[Rob_D]

Is this during a full rebuild? If so does it do the same if you push the application out on it's own? (presumably your pushing all your applications out in the same order everywhere)

If it's just during the rebuild, check windows isn't trying to pull updates down during the application install phase (this started happening for us recently and really screws with our builds). It might be there's a prerequisite within the windows updates, or it might just be trying to install at the same time or something.

 

If it happens during an application only install, are there any hardware discrepancies? Does it only happen on a specific type of computer, might there be a driver conflict somewhere?