I'm trying to install the GitHub for Windows that I downloaded from the GitHub site. However, I get the following error message:
Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor.
I'm curious if anyone else has ran into this issue, and knows of a fix?
Below is the info from the log file:
PLATFORM VERSION INFO Windows : 6.1.7601.65536 (Win32NT) Common
Language Runtime : 4.0.30319.17929 System.Deployment.dll :
4.0.30319.17929 built by: FX45RTMREL clr.dll : 4.0.30319.17929 built by: FX45RTMREL dfdll.dll : 4.0.30319.17929 built by:
FX45RTMREL dfshim.dll : 4.0.41209.0 (Main.041209-0000)SOURCES Deployment url :
github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHub.applicationERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors, details of these
errors are listed later in the log. * Activation of
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHub.application resulted in
exception. Following failure messages were detected: + The system
cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002)COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY No transaction error was
detected.WARNINGS There were no warnings during this operation.
OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS * [10/4/2012 12:22:45 PM] : Activation of
http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHub.application has started.ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation.
* [10/4/2012 12:22:45 PM] System.IO.FileNotFoundException
– The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002)
– Source: System.Deployment
– Stack trace: at System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.IsolationInterop.GetUserStore(UInt32
Flags, IntPtr hToken, Guid& riid) at
System.Deployment.Internal.Isolation.IsolationInterop.GetUserStore()
at
System.Deployment.Application.ComponentStore..ctor(ComponentStoreType
storeType, SubscriptionStore subStore) at
System.Deployment.Application.SubscriptionStore..ctor(String
deployPath, String tempPath, ComponentStoreType storeType) at
System.Deployment.Application.SubscriptionStore.get_CurrentUser()
at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri
activationUri, Boolean isShortcut, String textualSubId, String
deploymentProviderUrlFromExtension, BrowserSettings browserSettings,
String& errorPageUrl) at
System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object
state)COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS No transaction information is
available.
It seems like the error message itself isn't specific to Git, but more of a universal message that Windows installer throws because I noticed when doing a Google search people trying to install other applications had an identical error message.
I wasn't able to find any information on GitHub's website about this error either. 🙁
Thanks for any help-
Best Answer
Enter the following, depending on your version of Windows, then click the "OK" button:
On Windows XP:
(which may be
C:\Documents & Settings\(your username)\Local Settings\Apps
)On Windows VISTA / 7:
or
(e.g.,
C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\Apps
)Delete the 2.0 folder