On some servers I get an error while deploying SAS Foundation silently:
2019-09-04 14:09:01 Controller - An error occurred during processing: 2019-09-04 14:09:01 Controller - There is a problem with the package being installed: Error extracting file entry sashost.dll from zip Additional information about the task which threw the exception is shown below: Extract task: file=>C:\Windows\ccmcache\3b\Files\product_data\base__94110_cd746__wx6__en__sp0__1\en.xml, source=>. 2019-09-04 14:09:01 Controller - com.sas.tools.installs.it.InstallException: Error extracting file entry sashost.dll from zip
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sashost.dll (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process)
While applying hotfixes it complains that the SASHost.dll is in use by another process. The OS is Windows Server 2012 R2. If I install it by hand - it complains via the ui, and I can kill off the svchost.exe that has a handle open on sashost.dll click retry and the install completes. Obviously I can't install all of these by hand.
Worse some servers it did finish.
I tested it on a client OS as well - Windows 10 and it failed in the same manner. I attached the install log (with some info excised) on one of the machines that did this issue.
I did talk to tech support, but they didn't seem to know what was wrong...
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