Repair always hangs at Finish

[Mads]

Trying to repair a VISA 19.0 installation due to isseues when buidling app with VISA 19 - the package manager will always hang forever at the last stage (Finishing).Previously it would hang at NI Certificates, but updating that alone worked without any problems. Having done that I restarted the 19.0 repair and underway it starts to call a regular installer it seems to repair other components...then that closes, and the repair process hangs at Finishing indefinitely...At first I thought this was another firewall issue (if I try to update to 19.5 I get the same internet connection issue-warning as many others here...), but the fact that it seems to hang after that extra installer-window has closed makes me wonder if this could be something else as well...? I tried instead to force a reinstall by running our volume license installer with the reinstall parameter - but now that will just call NIPM - which then says that it does not understand that parameter...So I'm stuck.

[Mads]

The last items in the NIPkgLog when it hangs on failed repairs like these are:

...

14:36:59.865632 WIA: Done removing package from database | name: ni-visa-19.0-dotnet-development-support | version: 19.0.0.49152-0+f0
14:36:59.865632 WIA: About to add package to database | name: ni-visa-19.0-dotnet-development-support | version: 19.0.0.49152-0+f0
14:36:59.872633 WIA: Done adding package to database | name: ni-visa-19.0-dotnet-development-support | version: 19.0.0.49152-0+f0
14:36:59.875633 WIA: ===== API END OnTransactionStep ========== Transaction: Reinstall | package name: 'ni-visa-19.0-dotnet-development-support' | package version: '19.0.0.49152-0+f0'
14:36:59.882636 FA : ===== API BEGIN OnTransactionEnd ==========
14:36:59.882636 FA : [ BEGIN == Running 0 custom executes in postall queue in the following order. ]
14:36:59.882636 FA : [ END == Done running custom executes ]
14:36:59.882636 FA : About to close database
14:36:59.884635 FA : Done closing database
14:36:59.884635 FA : ===== API END OnTransactionEnd ==========
14:36:59.884635 WIA: Calling MetaUninstaller to repair products installed by WinMIF.

and then we hang forever...

[AlasdairMee]

Hi Mads,

It sounds like there could have been some kind of corruption with the NI-VISA 19.0 install - did you manage to get around this issue eventually?

Thanks,

Alasdair