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MID Server is not installing properly. Found error "MethodInvocationNotSupportedInConstrainedLanguage". - Support and Troubleshooting
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KB0858410

MID Server is not installing properly. Found error "MethodInvocationNotSupportedInConstrainedLanguage".


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Issue

During the MID server installation the process does not create the service, once created with the InstallMID-NT.bat the service would not stay up.

In the agent logs you will find something like:

08/31/20 11:15:06 (108) StartupSequencer WARNING *** WARNING *** no context : null
08/31/20 11:15:06 (858) StartupSequencer SEVERE *** ERROR *** Unable to parse output to a number:

08/31/20 11:15:06 (858) StartupSequencer SEVERE *** ERROR *** Unable to unblock scripts within bin/scripts folder. Check the MID Server permissions or manually unblock the files.
08/31/20 11:15:06 (858) StartupSequencer The service name is detected as snc_mid_mid_server1
08/31/20 11:15:06 (890) StartupSequencer WARNING *** WARNING *** Continuing with start up, but Windows file system permissions enforcer encountered an issue: Cannot invoke method. Method invocation is supported only on core types in this language mode.
At line:1 char:101
+ ... d ); return [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]:: ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodInvocationNotSupportedInConstrainedLanguage


Resolution

ConstrainedLanguage need to be changed to "FullLanguage" either locally or changing the GPO. More information about ConstrainedLanguage here.


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