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From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com]
Sent: January-30-14 1:20 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.
"Pilot error" is just a euphemism for an error in the MSI. If the component is
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-Original Message-
From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com]
Sent: January-29-14 7:52 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect inst
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.
if the install was a major upgrade and that file was in-use during the
uninstall then it may get deleted on reboot. That happens a lot because MSI is
too stupid to check if fir
If you don't believe it.. Try it out. We hit this all the time if we aren't
careful to make sure that we wait for services to stop on uninstall. Even if
we ask the service to stop, if we make it asynchronous the delete can happen
while the service is still shutting down, so files are in use.
Can somebody else confirm this can happen? Upgraded in-use files
disappearing on reboot sounds like something so serious that Windows
Installer wouldn't have been released with such an issue. And
otherwise we would be hearing about it all the time.
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2014-01-29 Scott Palmer :
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Apart from "pilot error" with components or whatever, it's worth
noting that there is a bug on older OS versions where upgrades lose
SxS files, in the GAC and in WinSxS, repair restores them.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238/en-us
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Phil Wilson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM
if the install was a major upgrade and that file was in-use during the
uninstall then it may get deleted on reboot. That happens a lot because MSI
is too stupid to check if fire that it might install are already scheduled
to be deleted on reboot. So the new file gets installed and then deleted.
Sc
Hi everyone,
I just released a new MSI for an upgraded version of one of our in house
applications. This is about the 16th iteration (we've been in testing for most
of this, so each new one is a full package with a MajorUpgrade) and all the
rest have been successful, until today. One file did
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