vs2017 webbuildtools: installation still running in the background after Choco reports successfull install

[jberezanski]

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Der Meister • an hour ago
Chocolatey says that install was successful, but tasks and targets are not created. I see vs_installer.exe, vs_installerservice.exe and 2 copies of vs_installershell.exe in task manager. The processes consume CPU.

It means that the Choco package does not wait until the actual installation is completed.

[jberezanski]

Possibly related to #7.

Did this happen on a fresh installation of VS 2017 or did you already have VS 2017 installed for some time and only now decided to add the webbuildtools workload to it?

[dermeister0]

I had vs_installer on that machine, but it was crashing with node.dll is missing error(https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/24239/cannot-uninstall-microsoft-visual-studio-2017-inst.html).
I copied installer from my developer PC.

May be VS installation is corrupted on the machine.

[jberezanski]

I think what happened was that when you launched choco install visualstudio2017-workflow-webbuildtools, the VS installer decided it needed to upgrade itself and you got bitten by #7. I'm planning to work around this in two ways: 1) in the install script, detect and wait for other VS installer processes, 2) make the VS installer upgrade operation explicit by putting the logic to do that it in the visualstudio2017-installer package. Stay tuned.