unexpected behaviour - Installation abandoned

Brief description of your issue

upgrading PowerShell might take longer as expected. Winget causes to terminate with "Installation abandoned"

Steps to reproduce

Have a previous version of PowerShell 7 installed, e.g. 7.1.0
winget install powershell to upgrade to the latest version
watch the output

Expected behavior

Winget should wait for the msi processes to end and check logs for exit / error codes

Actual behavior

winget is prematurely exiting with "Installation abandoned" while the uninstall / installation is still running and was overly successful.

Logs

MSI (s) (54:48) [10:46:37:555]: Product: PowerShell 7-x64 -- Installation completed successfully.

MSI (s) (54:48) [10:46:37:556]: Das Produkt wurde durch Windows Installer installiert. Produktname: PowerShell 7-x64. Produktversion: 7.1.1.0. Produktsprache: 1033. Hersteller: Microsoft Corporation. Erfolg- bzw. Fehlerstatus der Installation: 0.
WinGet-2021-1-22-10-44-54.016.log
WinGet-Microsoft.PowerShell.7.1.1-2021-1-22-10-45-17.287.log

Environment

Win10 Insider Dev
Powershell 7

Windows Package Manager v0.2.3162 Vorschau
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.21296.1000
Paket: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.11.3162.0

Any other software?
nothing specific.
AV: Windows Defender
System protection turned off

We see this when the shell we're executing in resets itself. We are looking at solutions.

Thanks for this info Demetrius!

We will need to add another key to manifests indicating the installation or upgrade of this application could cause a "restart" of your shell/terminal. MSIX has a delayed registration process that could also be triggered with this same key.

I'm converting this "Bug" into a "Feature" to capture this request.

We could offer a message like:
"Installer known to restart shell or terminal. The install may succeed unless you aborted the installation."

The descriptive text for the key could be:
"This installer sends abort signal ([Ctrl]+[c]) to current terminal."

How about:

Installers:
  - Architecture: x64
    InstallerUrl: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.1.3/PowerShell-7.1.3-win-x64.msi
    InstallerType: msi
    InstallerSha256: 459642D8B6D69F643794DF8394F28191F43E5ED35472899C4F0D8424F6D1317C
    InstallerAbortsTerminal: true

winget-cli/schemas/JSON/manifests/v1.1.0/manifest.installer.1.1.0.json

Lines 354 to 357 in 5a97e26

    
           "InstallerAbortsTerminal": { 
        
             "type": [ "boolean", "null" ], 
        
             "description": "Indicates whether the installer will abort terminal. Default is false" 
        
           },

In my case, the upgrade from version 7.5.4 to 7.5.5 was successful even though I got the message "Installation abandoned". After restarting the terminal, the new version was just fine.

The solution to this misinformation is simple, just change the message to something like "Restart the terminal to complete the installation". This issue have been reported long time ago and it's time to stop the confusion.

My experience was bit different. Same error message but effectively after restart of terminal it was still on the previous version.

Only winget install Microsoft.PowerShell fixed it.

Logs:
https://1drv.ms/f/c/cf2986dfddddf194/IgAl6aJziAvAQY9oltnzd_XBAV7OQMu_o9BTalOU-z1ly8U

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	"InstallerAbortsTerminal": {
	"type": [ "boolean", "null" ],
	"description": "Indicates whether the installer will abort terminal. Default is false"
	},

unexpected behaviour - Installation abandoned #713

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