There seemes to be a problem with the installation of FP4, the installation takes an extremely long time to complete. I’ve tried installing FP4 on two different computers with admin rights and the installation takes over an hour to complete.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Subject: My upgrade was slow and then when it was done, Notes crashed on starting
Everytime… I had to uninstall and reinstall and go back to FP3.
Howard
Subject: FP4 terribly Slow Domino and Clietn
Same issue here, I will raise this with IBM. This means we have to schedule significant downtime to load these fixes. Previous Domino Fix packs for us to about 2 minutes, with the client varying depending on speed and age of machine. What makes matters worse is that I have been told to roll FP4 out to 1300 clients, due to a bug fix in it which solves a major issue for us.
Subject: Re: (Very Slow) FP4 installation
I can’t say that it took an hour…but I, too, have noticed the FP4 client installation is extremely slow. Something that you’d expect to take no more than a few minutes takes at least 10-20. Moreover, it runs a LONG time with no apparent indication that it is actually progressing. The first time or two that I installed it, I thought it had hung up–so I end-tasked the process!!
Subject: slow FP4 installation
Not exactly an hour, however, too long for a fixpack. I can confirm that the first time I, too, thought it was hanging and killed the task. Good to know it is not only on my workstation like this!
Subject: Client & Server FP4 install is slow and little progress indication at times . . .
I have put FP4 on a bunch of different clients & servers now (inc. some v. fast boxes) and the install is always much slower than any previous Fix Pack I have ever installed. Go for a coffe etc. and be patient, it will finish eventually.
I did read on a blog that FP4 is slow because it writes to an approx. 1MB install log file line-by-line and turining off any antivirus software you have while installing the Fix Pack may help.
Subject: Very slow indeed. Over an hour for the incremental in my case…
Absurd amount of time required for the incremental install of FP4 for Notes/Designer/Admin (Standard). The generated log file shows it took over an hour to go from 8.5.1 to 8.5.1FP4! (and that was with anti-virus disabled, on an i7 with 9GB RAM). Something is clearly wrong. To make matters worse, the progress bar didn’t move from zero for the first 60 minutes or so. Only with a few minutes left did the progress bar actually indicate something was happening. Ugly, ugly update process. If you can, avoid the incremental and just go with the full install/upgrade package.
Perhaps of importance, I chose the option to leave the incremental update files on the hard drive (in order to run the install again), Maybe the FP installer has a problem with a non-default path. Just a guess. I’m not about to go through this yet again just to re-test.
Anyway, full sequence of events:
tried standard client FP4 upgrade (windows). After 20 minutes, no indication of activity or progess, and no CPU usage to speak of, so I assumed–as others have in this thread–that it hung, so I clicked “Cancel” and then a confirmation that I wanted to cancel. Eventually a dialog appeared that indicated the install had stopped an no changes had been made…
Tried again, and this time the incremental upgrade would only uninstall…so proceeded with that.
Tried again, and once again, it was taking forever. Over an hour later, it eventually indicated success. Taking that long can’t be right. Given the problems thus far, I assumed I had borked things by cancelling midstream back in step #1…so decided to start over…
Uninstalled Notes
Installed Notes (Standard) 8.5.1
Disabled anti-virus in case that was the bottle-neck.
Tried FP4 update/upgrade. This step alone took over an hour! Not my imagination either, as the log corroborates that extreme time frame.
I realize there’s a significant number of files updated with FP4 (the Technote mentions an update of dojo, which is supposed to add a few minutes). Still, something is wrong for it to take as long as it did for me (and others).