I had similar issue today installing VS2017 on a machine. It hung the machine
(only thing that was working was my mouse pointer and Spotify playing some
music). Had to hold power button to power cycle it. Even Control-Alt-Delete
didn't bring up the usual screen.
Uninstalled and trying again.
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf
of Greg Keogh
Sent: Saturday, 11 November 2017 12:34:23 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Sorry, something went wrong
No replies, so just FYI ... I kept trying various daring tricks to repair
Visual Studio 2017, but failed on all counts. I eventually gave-up and
uninstalled (which produced the same Sorry error!), then reinstalled, then
added Sandcastle, Installer support and other add-ons. This VM is a bit
sluggish, so the whole process took a tedious 3 hours. This is a very severe
problem and I live in fear of it happening again, especially on my main work PC
-- GK
On 11 November 2017 at 11:24, Greg Keogh
mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Folks, a regular update of VS2017 failed with "Sorry, something went wrong". I
can't find any logs or the vaguest clue about what's wrong. I've been searching
the web for an hour and I can find no sensible suggestions on how to fix this,
other than a complete reinstall. I tried a few stupid suggestions anyway, but
they do nothing.
I am livid with f***ing anger that a popular product from a major company would
produce such an utterly stupid patronising and unhelpful error message and
enter a crippled state. I'm extra angry because there are no obvious fixes
documented anywhere.
I've now wasted 2 futile hours trying to fix this. Has anyone been through this
and know what to do? (I'm about to reinstall)
Greg
