Wasting Time
Ale, music and enjoying life.
Gacutil fails to register a dll and fails silently
I hit a bit of an issue the other day.
Me and the DBA were rolling out quite a sizeable deployment into production. We were about half way through our deployment checklist (also known as the runbook). It was going well, too well in fact. We’d had no issues and everything was incredibly smooth.
Of course there shouldn’t really be any issues, as by this point, deployments (hopefully automated) to test environments and pre-prod/UAT will have happened along with the runbook documented and approved with all relevant team members and Change Manager(s).
So, I’d deployed out some of the apps as part of the product rollout. I moved on to some SSIS components that are doing some fairly sizeable file processing and number crunching along with many transforms. Myself and another Senior Developer had written a class library that was referenced by the SSIS components. The class library needed registering in the GAC. Not an issue, I’d copied the gacutil command and the dlls required for registering into a folder as part of the deployment pack. On the production server I cracked up the cmd prompt with Admin rights and issued the following:-
gacutil /i CompanyName.Library.dll
And nothing, well we had a response from gacutil which gave us the gactuil .net version and the command prompt. No error, great move on, but I noticed I’d not seen an “… installed” message. Confused I checked the Gac and sure enough the library was missing.
Hmmmm, this is strange. Had I inadvertently build the DLL targeting the wrong .Net Framework (that’s pretty amateur!)?Back to my DEV VM and I checked the framework. No it’s fine so what gives??
The Gacutil MSDN page doesn’t offer anything else apart from what I already know. After a quick stackoverflow search and google nothing was really giving me any clues. The release schedule window was ticking away and I was running out of ideas.
Luckily, a colleague had done something similar just mere weeks ago. Having chatted to him he mentioned something about the 1033 folder and a further dependency DLL residing in said folder. Once you have the other dll in the folder and gacutil issuing the command again gives you the install message and all is good with the world!
Of course once you know about the 1033 folder googling brings up lots of results on this issue
British Sea Power – London Roundhouse – 13th June 2015
Recovering from last night’s BSP gig in Wakefield. We caught the train with fine ales securely packed for the journey down. Checked into the hotel, then got the tube to Camden’s Enterprise pub. The Enterprise was pretty disappointing – half the ale pumps were off and the ale they did serve was pretty shitty….
Ended up dumping that back on the bar and grabbing some bottled Punk IPAs. Eventually friends join us from Manchester and we head to the Roundhouse. The legendary Roundhouse – a venue steeped in history that has seen it’s fair share of classic bands from the 60s onwards.
We arrive as Bo Ningen are half way through their set. They’re very entertaining. We make our way to the front just prior to BSP appearing.The setlist is slightly different to last night’s Long Division set focussing more on the celebrated “Decline Of British Sea Power” album.
It’s a solid strong performance. The band clearly firing on all cylinders and they’re very tight and professional. At the end the roadie throws the setlist out to the crowd and I manage to grab it to the groans of those next to me attempting to get their hands on it
British Sea Power – Wakefield Unity Hall – 12th June 2015
Day 1 of a 2 part British Sea Power gig run that would see me in London’s Roundhouse the following day.
Kicking off Wakefield’s Long Division festival British Sea Power played the recently restored Unity Hall on the Friday night.
A decent “festival style” set got the crowd going, That said I did commence the moshing at the front as it was a little stagnant to begin with. Very easy to walk to the front and stand staring at the band with no one near you. So little atmos to begin with. Probably didn’t help by a handful of people at the front clinging on to the barrier and getting a bit miffed when there was a bit of movement behind. If you don’t like the odd bit of crowd movement then don’t go to the front or just accept it for what it is. That said the gig was a perfect way to start another Long Division festival.
Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead? – Hyde Park Picturehouse 5th June 2015
Watched the new Damned documentary last night in the beautiful Hyde Park Picturehouse. Whilst I welcome any documentary on The Damned I have to say it left me a little disappointed. The documentary lasts just short of 2 hours but it seems to revolve around Rat and Brian and Rat’s money disputes with Sensible. Dave Vanian barely gets a look in. I realise with a band with a history like The Damned there’s only so much you can cover but to ignore the Strawberries album seems crazy.
That said I did enjoy it and if you get chance to see it check it out.
Manic Street Preachers – Wolverhampton Civic Hall 1st June 2015
Having not seen the Manics for a good few years and missing the original Holy Bible tour an opportunity landed my way to get tickets for Wolverhampton and meet up with friends. A good time was had by all.
The Manics did not disappoint and all the happy-go-lucky tracks from The Holy Bible were performed splendidly including some rarities getting dusted down for the encore. Managed to get to the front towards the end of the gig and some half decent photos below..
