Environment
Novell Client 2 SP3 for Windows
Situation
Installing the Novell Client 2 SP3 for Windows will fail if the file C:\Program exists.
Resolution
The fix for this bug has been released in the following patch:
Novell Client 2 SP3 for Windows (IR6) https://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=hRPJ_OZQsIw~
Cause
The Novell Client installer uses "C:\Program Files\"-based paths without properly enclosing them with quotes.
This ordinarily is not a problem because after Windows fails to open "C:\Program" it falls back to trying to look for a non-quote-delimited path within the command line provided.
But if "C:\Program" actually exists on the machine, the Microsoft fallback doesn't engage, because the test to open
"C:\Program" starts to succeed, but this is not the path Novell Client actually intended.
This ordinarily is not a problem because after Windows fails to open "C:\Program" it falls back to trying to look for a non-quote-delimited path within the command line provided.
But if "C:\Program" actually exists on the machine, the Microsoft fallback doesn't engage, because the test to open
"C:\Program" starts to succeed, but this is not the path Novell Client actually intended.