VS 2019 Installation error

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VS 2019 Installation error

Nico L 21

Hello,

After installing VS, I receive the error message below when launching VS. Please see attached.

I have Windows 10. VS 2019 Professional. I have tried VS 2019 Enterprise Preview 2 and still get the same error.

Please help out.

Thanks in advance.

Karen Payne MVP 35,606 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2021-03-27T10:38:00.87+00:00
Try the following assuming you installed Visual Studio to the default location.

Start Visual Studio in admin mode, if that fails try

Using /SafeMode to start Visual Studio in admin mode

Also, a anitvirus program may be interfering with Visual Studio

If none of the above helps report this via
Karen Payne MVP 35,606 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2021-03-27T10:40:54.687+00:00

I see there are warning, that may give clues to the problem. Might try this again and click on view problems.
Nico L 21 Reputation points

2021-03-28T15:37:28.067+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I will check it out.
John Brel 141 Reputation points

2021-03-30T08:43:59.08+00:00

Just pasting some screenshot of an error message is something you should never do. There really should be an ASBO against posters who put a screenshot in their message and who are too lazy to copy or type the actual message. The practice makes a forum like this - and frankly all of the internet - hard to search through and therefore hard to use.

So for those people having similar problems, the message is:
"Could not start visual studio due to an error.
StreamJsonRpc.RemoteInvocationException:
Failed to start host 'desktopClr.x86$IdentifyHost'. Host exited with exit code '-532462766'. (ErrorKind: Error"
Nico L 21 Reputation points

2021-03-30T15:25:13.503+00:00

I uninstalled and reinstalled VS a few times yesterday but Visual Installer didn't show that "View Problems" link again. So sorry. I don't know why I didn't pay attention to it the first time.

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Karen Payne MVP 35,606 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2021-03-27T10:38:00.87+00:00

Try the following assuming you installed Visual Studio to the default location.

Start Visual Studio in admin mode, if that fails try

Using /SafeMode to start Visual Studio in admin mode

Also, a anitvirus program may be interfering with Visual Studio

If none of the above helps report this via
Karen Payne MVP 35,606 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2021-03-27T10:40:54.687+00:00

I see there are warning, that may give clues to the problem. Might try this again and click on view problems.
Nico L 21 Reputation points

2021-03-28T15:37:28.067+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I will check it out.
John Brel 141 Reputation points

2021-03-30T08:43:59.08+00:00

Just pasting some screenshot of an error message is something you should never do. There really should be an ASBO against posters who put a screenshot in their message and who are too lazy to copy or type the actual message. The practice makes a forum like this - and frankly all of the internet - hard to search through and therefore hard to use.

So for those people having similar problems, the message is:
"Could not start visual studio due to an error.
StreamJsonRpc.RemoteInvocationException:
Failed to start host 'desktopClr.x86$IdentifyHost'. Host exited with exit code '-532462766'. (ErrorKind: Error"
Nico L 21 Reputation points

2021-03-30T15:25:13.503+00:00

I uninstalled and reinstalled VS a few times yesterday but Visual Installer didn't show that "View Problems" link again. So sorry. I don't know why I didn't pay attention to it the first time.

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,201 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Nico L ,

Did you remember what actions you took before this error occurred?

Please try to run your Visual Studio Installer as administrator and click on “More” > “Repair” to repair your Visual Studio.

Sincerely,
Anna

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Nico L 21 Reputation points

2021-03-29T05:30:59.547+00:00

Thank you. I did several repairs and still the same error.
Gary Malkasian 1 Reputation point

2021-09-16T00:14:12.3+00:00
Me, too. But mine began with a different problem. I've been running VS 2017 & 2019 on this machine for months without a problem. It was working just yesterday.

Today when I launched VS 2019 I got errors that Global Hub Client package and SccProviderPackage package did not load correctly. The IDE failed to launch. The message pointed to the ActivityLog, which had these messages:
SVsBrokeredServiceContainer service is unavailable
Cannot find an instance of Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.VSGlobalBrokeredServiceContainer

After attempting restarts, including /resetsettings, I used Installer to Repair. From that point on, whenever I try to launch, I get the error message in this thread:
Failed to start host 'desktopClr.x86$IdentityHost'. Host exited with exit code '-532462766'. (ErrorKind: Error)

I have tried:

deletion of all files in %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_*\ComponentModelCache

uninstall/reinstall of all VS instances

InstallCleanup.exe

manually deleted all files

downloaded a fresh copy of the latest version of VS Enterprise 2019 and tried again, with the bare bones components needed to do my job.

Still no dice. "Failed to start host 'desktopClr.x86$IdentityHost'."
Ethan Hart 0 Reputation points

2023-08-30T15:55:45.43+00:00

Having a similar problem. Was anyone able to figure this out?

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