12.3 April Patch 1.0 Personality Error / Incomplete

[dwb 0]

I got error saying Default.Personality is not supported and at least PAServer/ seems not to be patched.

 

I had uninstalled 22.0 before installing 23.0 (RADStudio_12_3_esd_2017_D8E02C5.exe), registered serial number, got 12.3AprilPatch-20250425.zip, ran patch.R123.hotfix.april_install.bat, but bds.exe GUI did not say the update was installed so I ran Tools, GetIt Package Manager, RAD Studio 12.3 April Patch 1.0. Then the Delphi GUI repeatedly displayed the following error after pressing the OK button: Error | Personality 'Default.Personality' is not supported. [OK] I held down the space bar to push OK many times, then Enter key and the window repeated dozens maybe a hundred times. I clicked the window X a few times and it repeated. I held down Alt+F4 and after a short while Delphi closed (crashed?). I looked in C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\PAServer and the original file is still there (02/27/2025 12:57 AM 289,311,096 setup_paserver.exe) rather than the new ones. Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\CatalogRepository\12.3Patch-AprilPatch\PAServer\ does exist and contain the 2025/04/25 files. After restarting Delphi the bottom two GetIt tabs no longer say "Error loading data" but populate appropriately and Help, About indicates that the April patch was applied.

 

05/16/2025 01:13 PM 59,977,683 LinuxPAServer23.0.tar.gz
05/16/2025 01:13 PM 74,461,822 PAServer23.0.pkg
05/16/2025 01:13 PM 289,559,824 setup_paserver.exe
 

Edited yesterday at 04:26 PM by dwb

[dwb 0]

I think the update was complete.

 

To clarify, the personality error seems to have been a temporary glitch but my concern was that C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\PAServer\ does not contain the 2025/04/25 files making me wonder if other files may not have been patched. After further investigation, I suppose the GetIt patch was not meant to update that PAServer folder. Someone who installed this patch without any errors or issues could verify by running the following from cmd.exe; I expect your setup_paserver.exe will be 2025/02/27 too. It seems the patch zip is just a collection of files and I compared its contents with C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0 and all files in the zip match (e.g. R123.hotfix.april\bin\Windows\lldb\lldb.exe), with only folder differences being Program Files that were not patched thus not in the zip.

 

dir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\PAServer"

Edited 20 hours ago by dwb

[DelphiUdIT 237]

Look this for the patch: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-12-3-april-patch-available/

 

ONLY if you install the patch from IDE GUI the update will appear in the "About" box.

The PAServer should be copied manually to the destination target (from the Repository path that you have indicated).

 

About the personality, I don't know about it but may be is some issue about license ?

[MichaelT 10]

2 hours ago, dwb said:

To clarify, Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\CatalogRepository\12.3Patch-AprilPatch\PAServer\ does exist and contain the 2025/04/25 files.

 

It is C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\PAServer\ that does not contain the 2025/04/25 files. Perhaps the GetIt patch was not meant to update that. Can someone who installed this patch without any errors or issues verify please? You can run this from cmd.exe to see if setup_paserver.exe is 2025/02/27 or 2025/04/25.

 

dir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\PAServer"

PA Server in the directory in my case in Program Files (x86)  and so on have not been replaced in my case too. The new files do exist in the Catalog Reporsitory. Check the date created, I see several changes applied by/with the patch.

 

I usually don't touch things unless problems show up. So until now I didn't need to install PA Server. The line in the About Box mentioning the April patch shows up, since I installed the patch very likely a second time, no idea if that's possible, from the Welcome Page. I didn't check file changes after applying the patch manually.

 

Installing the manual patch would have taken a long time for not doing almost anything. So I'm assuming it installed and the IDE just didn't show the line in the About Box.

 

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Pretty much the same result after having applied the May patch. The line for May Patch shows up in the About Box

Edited 23 hours ago by MichaelT

[Gustav Schubert 26]

41 minutes ago, MichaelT said:

The new files do exist in the Catalog Reporsitory.

I have just installed the May patch via GetIt, using the link in the IDE. I see two Catalog Repository folders, one in the public documents library, and one in the user account document library, which has the new files.

[MichaelT 10]

12 hours ago, Gustav Schubert said:

I have just installed the May patch via GetIt, using the link in the IDE. I see two Catalog Repository folders, one in the public documents library, and one in the user account document library, which has the new files.

Exactly. The files do exist indeed, but the files have to put 'manually' or installed into the Program Files ... IDE\PAServer directory. Sorry for not being precise enough.

Edited 10 hours ago by MichaelT

[Gustav Schubert 26]

7 hours ago, MichaelT said:

not being precise enough

Thanks for you excellent precision, it was helpful!

 

The documents folder is apparently the folder where everyone will dump their stuff. My attempt to make sure that nothing in there will be automatically saved to the cloud failed at least once. It is a no go area for my documents. I almost never look there. So, when I try  to find the Catalog Repository folder, I go straight to "Dieser PC" in Explorer and try my luck in "Öffentlich" first.

 

I guess the new version of PAServer fixes the need to copy newly installed provisioning files from the new location to the location where PAServer is looking for them. But how can one know?