Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Neil Sleightholm
It also happens with a clean install in my scenario. -Original Message- From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 August 2014 22:28 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key

[WiX-users] How to prevent repair of permanent MsiPackage ?

2014-08-28 Thread roberthyang
Hi all -- we have a bundle containing MsiPackage entries for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2. There are actually two MSI's: x86 and x64. The latter seems to have problems being repaired via our bootstrapper (standard burn bootstrapper application, no custom code). I don't want to further hijack anoth

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread nick2893
I got a very similar issue on one of my client's machines; the fix was to un-install the KB update. We had antivirus disabled. We could not install anything on that machine until we un-installed the KB update. The error we got from the installer was something like "error: object not found", and

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Keith.Douglas
I got that once when some McAfee product or other was trying to install itself at the same time (we run its AV and a few other things on my target machines), and a few months ago - well before this update. Somehow also when that happens one gets the McAfee product details in the install log cre

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread roberthyang
I just tried it with KB2918614 removed, and got a different error, "Error 1316.A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file" : Action start 14:45:54: PublishFeatures. MSI (s) (7C:8C) [14:45:54:217]: Doing action: PublishProduct Action ended 14:45:54: PublishFeatures. Return valu

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Sascha Sertel
@Neil: That's good to know, and great to have an easy repro, I'm sure Microsoft will need that to come up with a fix. But this still only affects the upgrade case, or does it happen on first install for you as well? In my case it's only on (minor) upgrade, fresh install works fine. This makes me w

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Our install isn't any of those :-) WiX 3.7, Per Machine, No bootstrapper, No managed CA I can reproduce the issue with a very minimal MSI, no UI, only installs 1 file. Neil -Original Message- From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 August 2014 21:31 To: General dis

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Sascha Sertel
@Neil: Yes, for us removing KB2918614 fixed the error and got us back to working state. No other workaround known at this time. I've been trying to figure out why this only seems to affect certain MSIs. Here some parameters that might be relevant: - WiX 3.8 - per-User install, no elevated privileg

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread roberthyang
We just started seeing a possibly-related error recently. We have a burn bootstrapper in Wix 3.8 and among the bundle MSI's is SQL Server Compact SP2 x64 (SSCERuntime-ENU-x64.msi). When the bootstrapper attempts to repair the application, the repair of SQL Server Compact SP2 x64 fails with "Error

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I think it is somehow related to the user context it is running as, in our case we using PowerShell remoting to install the MSI (using msiexec). The bit I have never seen before are the SECREPAIR messages, these only get triggered for us when we do this remote deployment. Although it works with

Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container

2014-08-28 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I have seen that reported but I think it is slightly different. Does removing kb2918614 fix it? -Original Message- From: Matt O'Connell [mailto:techsupport...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 August 2014 11:35 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcqu

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Uninstalling an InnoSetup-based ExePackage

2014-08-28 Thread Sean Hall
For now, you could always write a little wrapper exe yourself that receives the InstallCommand and UninstallCommand and does the right thing and include the real setup.exe as a payload of that package. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Hoover, Jacob wrote: > Gut feel is if we can get the uninst

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Uninstalling an InnoSetup-based ExePackage

2014-08-28 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Gut feel is if we can get the uninstall key info, we should be able to get the path from there (and optional parameters). -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:35 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Uninstalling an InnoSetup-based ExePackage

2014-08-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Yeah, we should talk about the best way to implement this on wix-devs. IIRC, with InnoSetup there are a couple options we could implement. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Orig

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Uninstalling an InnoSetup-based ExePackage

2014-08-28 Thread Hoover, Jacob
And assuming we could reliably capture the path to the uninstaller it shouldn't be hard to implement. Not sure if it would be a 3.x, but certainly a 4.x thing. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:19 AM To: General discussi

Re: [WiX-users] Burn - Uninstalling an InnoSetup-based ExePackage

2014-08-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Not today. Good feature request though. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Carlier, Frederik [mailto:frederik.carl...@jamosolutions.com] Sent: Thurs

[WiX-users] Burn - Uninstalling an InnoSetup-based ExePackage

2014-08-28 Thread Carlier, Frederik
Hi, I'm using Burn to redistribute my installer and most of the dependencies. That works well, except for one dependency which is packaged using InnoSetup. The catch here is that while the InstallCommand is just about passing parameters to the source file, to uninstall, I need to run an uninstal

Re: [WiX-users] Burn to MSI -- Secure password -- Best Parctice

2014-08-28 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Is there a wiki article or anything on security best practices where this stuff could be captured a little more formally? -Original Message- From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: August-27-14 6:44 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bu

[WiX-users] Embedded Progress events

2014-08-28 Thread Carl Pettersson
Hi, I'm building a MBA and I noticed that I should probably make calls to SendEmbeddedProgress/SendEmbeddedError when my bootstrapper is run in UI-less/embedded mode (during the uninstallation of the previous version in an uninstallation, for instance). However, there are three progress events o

Re: [WiX-users] Burn to MSI -- Secure password -- Best Parctice

2014-08-28 Thread Phill Hogland
Thank you. I will look at that. I have not actually done any of the mba implementation yet as I have been focused on the underlying Bundle/MSI behavior, and getting the ServiceInstall and XmlConfig pieces figured out. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.6