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Eve install on brand new laptop and launcher derp

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Vincent R'lyeh
Screaming Hayabusa
#1 - 2013-05-22 14:23:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Vincent R'lyeh
So my new laptop arrived yesterday & I have been freshly installing things on it.

It's a Windows 7 Home 64 OS with literally only the important things installed on it (anti-virus, EveMon, Pyfa, Eve etc....)

Everything was fine until the launcher update shenanigans yesterday. I basically left it alone until the fix was produced and then tried to update it.

Problem is the launcher updated fine but then once opened it tries to install a patch and that is what keeps failing

Error text too long for the forums so on pastebin

Any ideas what's causing this?

If I try to run the repair tool I also get an error which contains this bit too 'unpack requires a string argument of length 4' so I can't do that.

I've tried deleting the launcher folder & redownloading it from the link but no luck, next thing I suppose is a total re-install but I'd rather not cause further pain to my monthly download limit.

On a side-note my gaming rig has been updated exactly the same way & works fine?

I have deliberately developed an air of cynicism that I originally intended to make me appear somewhat louche and caddish but actually comes across as irritable hostility combined with the unspoken threat of sudden violence.....
CCP Aporia
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2013-05-22 14:47:48 UTC
Vincent R'lyeh wrote:
So my new laptop arrived yesterday & I have been freshly installing things on it.

It's a Windows 7 Home 64 OS with literally only the important things installed on it (anti-virus, EveMon, Pyfa, Eve etc....)

Everything was fine until the launcher update shenanigans yesterday. I basically left it alone until the fix was produced and then tried to update it.

Problem is the launcher updated fine but then once opened it tries to install a patch and that is what keeps failing

Error text too long for the forums so on pastebin

Any ideas what's causing this?

If I try to run the repair tool I also get an error which contains this bit too 'unpack requires a string argument of length 4' so I can't do that.

I've tried deleting the launcher folder & redownloading it from the link but no luck, next thing I suppose is a total re-install but I'd rather not cause further pain to my monthly download limit.

On a side-note my gaming rig has been updated exactly the same way & works fine?


This looks like the update package it downloads is broken. Why that is the case is a good question, though.

Friend of walking avatars, currently hibernating until he gets to open that door.
Yuki Kasumi
Some names are just stupid
#3 - 2013-05-22 15:08:38 UTC
If you have a working copy of eve you can just copy it...
Vincent R'lyeh
Screaming Hayabusa
#4 - 2013-05-23 18:54:47 UTC
As an update I just tried this again and it applied the patch fine. No errors at all.

The only thing I changed was to set Eve to always run in Admin mode. However I had already tried the right click run as admin and that had failed previously.

Also obviously my login is the administrator account.

So anyway it works now & I choose not to question the why's too deeply in case it changes it's mind! Lol

I have deliberately developed an air of cynicism that I originally intended to make me appear somewhat louche and caddish but actually comes across as irritable hostility combined with the unspoken threat of sudden violence.....
Byrrssa Crendraven
Anti - Social
#5 - 2013-05-23 19:16:33 UTC
Turn off User Account Control. This will more than likely end all of your headaches. It's an awesome thought in theory...but,...
Vincent R'lyeh
Screaming Hayabusa
#6 - 2013-05-23 20:43:57 UTC
Aye thinking about it I did turn off that piece of well thought out security control.......*koff*

That's prob what fixed it!

I have deliberately developed an air of cynicism that I originally intended to make me appear somewhat louche and caddish but actually comes across as irritable hostility combined with the unspoken threat of sudden violence.....
Vincent R'lyeh
Screaming Hayabusa
#7 - 2013-05-24 12:29:18 UTC
Daily update

Guess what chaps

It's doing it again, opened the launcher just now, it tries to install an update

'CREATING EVE_ONLINE_540656-540656_WIN.PATCH 0.0%'

Then fails with the same error message as previously.............

I have deliberately developed an air of cynicism that I originally intended to make me appear somewhat louche and caddish but actually comes across as irritable hostility combined with the unspoken threat of sudden violence.....
Kelgan Jackhammer
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-05-26 16:46:10 UTC
/bump

I am having this issue as well. Read this post a few days ago, rebooted and problem solved.... Until I quit the game. I got the same issue next time I tried to run the game, just like the OP, and now, just like the OP, restarting does not help.

Please dump this garbage and revert to the old launcher. There is absolutely zero benefit we are getting as players from logging in before the game launches. In fact this is a major hindrance.

Any help on getting this load of crap working in the mean time would be appreciated
odingrey
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#9 - 2013-05-27 09:47:23 UTC
Confirming, also having this issue.

My wall of text: http://pastebin.com/Du7WSQFW
Dr Perez
New Phone Who Dat
#10 - 2013-06-01 21:24:38 UTC
I'm also having is problem. I tried restarting but there was no change.