Spark installation error / failure on Vista Business (SP1)

Hello,

I have a “HP Compaq 6820s” laptop that my employer is asking me to install Spark onto.

The laptop runs “Windows Vista Business Edition Service Pack 1 (SP1)”, and is continuously up-to-date using “Windows Update”.

The machine was recently re-formatted and re-loaded (although the Spark installation problem was the same before re-formatting).

The Java installation on the laptop is:

Java™ 6 Update 11

and

Java™ SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1

The Spark client executable that I am trying to install is:

spark_2_5_8_online.exe


Here is the installation failure message:


Here is error log file that I found in my “Users” folder (of Vista):

Exception:

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -28042903
at LZMA.LzmaInputStream.LzmaDecode(LzmaInputStream.java:85)
at LZMA.LzmaInputStream.fill_buffer(LzmaInputStream.java:233)
at LZMA.LzmaInputStream.read(LzmaInputStream.java:313)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.io.PushbackInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.util.FileUtil.pumpStream(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.util.FileUtil.extractFile(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.helper.fileinst.FileInstaller.install(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.helper.content.ContentInstaller.installContent( Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.helper.content.ContentInstaller.doStandardInsta llation(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.beans.actions.InstallFilesAction.install(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.InstallerContextImpl.performActionInt(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.ContextImpl.performAction(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.controller.Controller.executeActions(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.controller.Controller.handleCommand(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.controller.Controller.start(Unknown Source)
at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.main(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

System properties:

java.runtime.name=Java™ SE Runtime Environment
exe4j.moduleName=C:\Users\foxw\Documents\System\Spark IM\spark_2_5_8_online.exe
exe4j.semaphoreName=c:_users_foxw_documents_system_spark im_spark_2_5_8_online.exe
sun.boot.library.path=c:\program files\java\jre6\bin
java.vm.version=11.0-b16
java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.vendor.url=http://java.sun.com/
exe4j.consoleCodepage=cp0
path.separator=;
java.vm.name=Java HotSpot™ Client VM
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io
user.country=GB
sun.os.patch.level=
install4j.exeDir=C:\Users\foxw\Documents\System\Spark IM
java.vm.specification.name=Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir=C:\Users\foxw\AppData\Local\Temp\e4j39A6.tmp_dir2160
java.runtime.version=1.6.0_11-b03
java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.Win32GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs=c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\endorsed
os.arch=x86
java.io.tmpdir=C:\Users\foxw\AppData\Local\Temp
line.separator=

java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
user.variant=
exe4j.tempDir=C:\Users\foxw\AppData\Local\Temp\e4j39A6.tmp_dir2160
os.name=Windows Vista
proxySet=false
sun.java2d.noddraw=true
sun.jnu.encoding=Cp1252
java.library.path=C:\Users\foxw\Documents\System\Spark IM;.;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32 ;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn;c:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared;c:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\DLLShared;c:\program files\java\jre6\bin
java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version=50.0
sun.management.compiler=HotSpot Client Compiler
exe4j.isInstall4j=true
os.version=6.0
user.home=C:\Users\foxw
user.timezone=Europe/London
java.awt.printerjob=sun.awt.windows.WPrinterJob
file.encoding=Cp1252
java.specification.version=1.6
java.class.path=C:\Users\foxw\AppData\Local\Temp\e4j39A6.tmp_dir2160\i4jruntime. jar;C:\Users\foxw\AppData\Local\Temp\e4j39A6.tmp_dir2160\user.jar;C:\Users\foxw\ AppData\Local\Temp\e4j39A6.tmp_dir2160\platform.zip;
user.name=foxw
java.vm.specification.version=1.0
java.home=c:\program files\java\jre6
sun.arch.data.model=32
exe4j.launchName=C:\Users\foxw\Documents\System\Spark IM\spark_2_5_8_online.exe
user.language=en
java.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
awt.toolkit=sun.awt.windows.WToolkit
java.vm.info=mixed mode, sharing
exe4j.unextractedPosition=1479510
java.version=1.6.0_11
java.ext.dirs=c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\ext;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\lib\ext
sun.boot.class.path=c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\resources.jar;c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\rt.jar;c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\sunrsasign.jar;c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\jsse.jar;c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\jce.jar;c:\program files\java\jre6\lib\charsets.jar;c:\program files\java\jre6\classes
install4j.appDir=C:\Users\foxw\AppData\Local\Temp
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
file.separator=
java.vendor.url.bug=http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle
sun.cpu.endian=little
sun.desktop=windows
sun.cpu.isalist=pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86


Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

Wayne Fox