Entire Installation Dissappeared: Possible Culprit

[bolster]

Ok, this is a strange one.
Running VBox on my Windows Vista laptop. Was working on it the day before yesterday, nothing strange. Come to it today, and it appears to have been uninstalled. Shortcuts loose their icons, associations gone. But my vdi's are still where they were supposed to be.
After consulting the event viewer, i found this as an MsiInstaller event.

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Product: Google Gears -- Error 1704. An installation for Sun xVM VirtualBox is currently suspended.  You must undo the changes made by that installation to continue.  Do you want to undo those changes?

Am duplicating this post on the gears google groups, but i thought the people here might know what the frak happened....?

[Perryg]

Interesting!

I have seen similar things like this happen in the old days with Google and their products.
One reason why I to this day do not allow Google task bar in a Corp. setting.

Please let everyone know what you find.

[CrappySoftwareNoThx]

I have seen a LOT of strange-issities with vBox installer in 2.2.2 (especially in conjunction with Checkpoint VPN client on the Host)

I am not sure which to blame, but the vBox seems very easy to confuse regarding network/devices and might "die" in installation/uninstallation.
I saw that exact message "An installation for <APPNAME> is currently suspended. You must undo..."
But I had an option to say yes/no.

If Google Gears just do it (undo the previous error) , then the error is on them


Do you remember having an issue with your last vBox installation ? You must have had, if msiinstaller tells you so.
Given my recent problems, I trust msiinstaller much more than vBox/Checkpoint developers, sorry...

[Perryg]

I saw that exact message "An installation for <APPNAME> is currently suspended. You must undo..."

Now that can be an issue.
This indicated that you updated while a guest was suspended and not shut down. Was this an update or a new install?
If it was a new install what was the part after .... Something was telling you there was a problem, even if you had no yes/no.
Personally I have had no installation problems with the exception of upgrading to version 2.0 and that was my fault for being lazy and not following proper upgrade policy.

[CrappySoftwareNoThx]

Hi Perryg,

I am not sure if you ask me or the OP ?

I'm probably reading you wrong, but sounds as if you claim that vBox will prevent new installations on the Host, if we have guests in suspend mode !?

As I understood the OP, he's trying to install google gears on host, but cant because :

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"An installation for Sun xVM VirtualBox is currently suspended"

I tried to articulate that I have seen that too, recently, while fighting to get rid of Checkpoint VPN (on Host) and it's devices, and then trying to remove vBox. They both randomly failed while handling their own device removal, and susequent installations would throw the message about previous suspended/unfinished installation still running and if I would undo that older installation.

I hope a suspended guest will not prevent installs to the Host , but maybe I missed that in the admin guide ?

[Perryg]

No I just got mixed statements misunderstood.

[mjvoss]

Came to this post looking for info on the same symptoms, though here's the mention from my event viewer:

Product: Microsoft Search Enhancement Pack -- Error 1704. An installation for Sun xVM VirtualBox is currently suspended. You must undo the changes made by that installation to continue. Do you want to undo those changes?

I'll assume this has to do with some update that was installed, and looks like it is network related. Google Gears appears to be off the hook for this one. Has anyone been able to shed some light on what exactly causes this? I did have some trouble when I was installing VirtualBox initially where the installation itself hung at the end of the very last step for several minutes, and so I killed it manually, for better or worse. bolster, any similar troubles on install?