[Bug 45516] Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) installer fails with unhandled C++ exception (broken WINEPREFIX/msxml3/libxml2)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45516

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEEDINFO                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
                URL|https://www.microsoft.com/e |https://web.archive.org/web
                   |n-gb/download/confirmation. |/20170411161725/https://dow
                   |aspx?id=8328                |nload.microsoft.com/downloa
                   |                            |d/C/6/D/C6D0FD4E-9E53-4897-
                   |                            |9B91-836EBA2AACD3/vcredist_
                   |                            |x86.exe
            Summary|Microsoft Visual C++ 2010   |Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
                   |SP1 Redistributable Package |SP1 Redistributable Package
                   |(x86) installer fails with  |(x86) installer fails with
                   |unhandled C++ exception     |unhandled C++ exception
                   |                            |(broken
                   |                            |WINEPREFIX/msxml3/libxml2)

--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

resolving 'INVALID' here. My comment #3 from 2018 is still spot on. That
specific C++ exception from the installer is the result of failure to
load/parse 'UiInfo.xml' via msxml3. Unfortunately Dan only posted the backtrace
and not the full console output otherwise the failure to instantiate 'msxml3'
inproc server would be visible.

It's very likely that Dan had broken msxml3/libxml2.

$ sha1sum vcredist_x86.exe 
b84b83a8a6741a17bfb5f3578b983c1de512589d  vcredist_x86.exe

$ du -sh vcredist_x86.exe 
4.8M    vcredist_x86.exe

$ wine --version
wine-2.20

Regards