CI failing since tools update

[Thomas1664]

Describe the bug
All CIs except OSX and Linux are failing on stage "Test modified ports..." if PR branch is not even with master. If they are even, only arm64_windows and x64_windows_static_md fail. These bugs are probably introduced by PRs #23162 and #22985. At least 4 PRs experienced the exact same CI failure after those commits.

Environment
CI

To Reproduce
Trigger CI run

Failure logs

A suitable version of 7zip was not found (required v19.0.0). Downloading portable 7zip v19.0.0...
Extracting 7zip...
msiexec failed while extracting 'D:\downloads\7z1900-x64.msi' with message:
T
##[error]vcpkg ci failed
At C:\a\1\s\scripts\azure-pipelines\test-modified-ports.ps1:178 char:5
+     throw "vcpkg ci failed"
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (vcpkg ci failed:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : vcpkg ci failed
##[error]PowerShell exited with code '1'.

CC: @BillyONeal @JackBoosY

[dg0yt]

I interprete the logging output as indicating an implicit fetch of 7zip when fetching one of the other tools. I added an explicit early fetch of 7zip in #23302, complementing the explicit fetches of cmake, ninja, git. This seems to fix the issue in CI.

IIRC we saw similar logging output in a previous issue with installing 7zip.

[dg0yt]

IIRC we saw similar logging output in a previous issue with installing 7zip.

Here: #19490

[Neumann-A]

The error is:

[DEBUG] 7532: cmd_execute_and_stream_data() returned 1601 after    48467 us
The Windows Installer service could not be accessed. Contact your support personnel to verify that the Windows Installer service is properly registered.

so it is unrelated to the mentioned PRs but a problem with the runners.

[BillyONeal]

Yeah I think we got something pushed to our VMs that breaks msiexec :(

[BillyONeal]

https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/releases/tag/v2.200.2 I observe this release was pushed around the same time

[BillyONeal]

microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent#3770

[Thomas1664]

Now installation of Python 2 fails with the following error:

-- Downloading https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.18/python-2.7.18.amd64.msi -> python-2.7.18.amd64.msi...
T h e   W i n d o w s   I n s t a l l e r   S e r v i c e   c o u l d   n o t   b e   a c c e s s e d .   T h i s   c a n   o c c u r   i f   t h e   W i n d o w s   I n s t a l l e r   i s   n o t   c o r r e c t l y   i n s t a l l e d .   C o n t a c t   y o u r   s u p p o r t   p e r s o n n e l   f o r   a s s i s t a n c e . 
 
 CMake Error at scripts/cmake/vcpkg_find_acquire_program.cmake:692 (message):
  Unable to find PYTHON2

This seems to be also caused by msi installer because of the UTF16 encoding (spaces between letters)

Observed on CI by installing cppcms and qtwebengine for triplet arm64-windows

[Neumann-A]

Just the same failure as before. Nothing new to see here. Previously it failed to extract 7z.mis which was replaced by tar on windows and now the same failure happens with python2.msi. This will be solved by #23431

[Thomas1664]

This is fixed now