Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
the meantime. Alain -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 28, 2013 16:07 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Do you still have the computer management console

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Hoover, Jacob
: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:38 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I'll open by saying that I don't think this is why the services are being disabled, because I&#

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
such a nightmare, I might have pushed harder to redo everything in .NET. Alain -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: June 28, 2013 14:55 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Any proc

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Phil Wilson
it will be ok and the service will stop. If your java runtime has an explicit way to stop a Windows service and wait for it to actually finish, use that. Phil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:14 AM To: 'General discuss

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
gestions. Alain -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: June 28, 2013 14:03 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I've mentioned this before, but I don't recall if

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Phil Wilson
is not complicated and is much more manageable than a command shell. Phil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 7:07 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restar

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
es aren't being completely removed immediately at uninstall, even though I have specified that they should be removed at uninstall in the ServiceControl tags? Alain -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: June 27, 2013 19:06 To: 'General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-27 Thread Blair Murri
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:04 -0400 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue > > I have just confirmed that, when my service is running the cmd.exe process, > the RestartManager requests the restart, while otherwise, it does not. > >

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-27 Thread Alain Forget
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Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-27 Thread Alain Forget
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Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-26 Thread Blair
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Hey Alain, Take a look at my answer to this problem on stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6913332/wix-installer-problem-why-does-restartmanager-mark-service-as-rmcritical-and-no/8147540#8147540 Basically, you can

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-25 Thread Joel Budreau
Hey Alain, Take a look at my answer to this problem on stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6913332/wix-installer-problem-why-does-restartmanager-mark-service-as-rmcritical-and-no/8147540#8147540 Basically, you can 'lie' about the custom action and mark it as immediate instead of de

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Alain Forget
r the problem (and hopefully a solution)? Alain -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: June 21, 2013 12:14 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I've found a number of

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Alain Forget
orget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: June 21, 2013 11:42 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Blair (and anyone else interested), You were bang on about both manually trying to launch the service to test it and using

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Alain Forget
oing on? Alain -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: June 21, 2013 04:31 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Alain, Temporarily remove the ServiceControl\@Start and install. The

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Blair Murri
o be Arguments="-ini "[#fileClientCommModuleJslConfig]"" Blair Murri > From: afor...@cmu.edu > To: jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:09:30 -0400 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue > > Anyone out there have any id

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-20 Thread Alain Forget
Sent: June 19, 2013 19:12 To: 'Hoover, Jacob'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I've implemented Blair's 2nd suggestion, and the services do seem to get installed, but I don't think they&#

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Alain Forget
iles in use before deciding that a restart is required? -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 19, 2013 14:10 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue No, a

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 19, 2013 14:10 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue No, a component can only have one key path, be it a file,

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Alain Forget
ssage- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 19, 2013 14:10 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue No, a component can only have one key path, be it a file, directory, or

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Hoover, Jacob
] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:51 PM To: Hoover, Jacob; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Oh, I see, so if we make a Component contain multiple files, any time any one of those files are changed, the inst

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Alain Forget
r XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue One file per component is the most flexible for maintenance, but depending on your patching/upgrade plan it may not be needed. If the key file to the component is a 3rd party exe (and all of your jars were within this component), the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Hoover, Jacob
olset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue You're quite right; after installing our software, there is a separate jsl.exe process for each of our services. One disturbing thing I've noticed is that if I then reboot the computer after installing our software, then op

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Alain Forget
08 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I looked at the source code from the jsl website and what they are doing is installing whichever jsl*.exe binary as the service executable (passing '-ini ' as the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-19 Thread Blair Murri
jsl.exe binary into multiple target binary files (one for each service). Blair > From: afor...@cmu.edu > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:31:25 -0400 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue > > Hm, interesting. Assuming you are right and

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-18 Thread Alain Forget
: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Restart manager in your situation is probably working something like this: Look at each component that is being removed Look at each and every file in each of those components Look at

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-18 Thread Blair Murri
Restart manager in your situation is probably working something like this: Look at each component that is being removed Look at each and every file in each of those components Look at each and every process holding any of those files open? Is that process's binary the keypath of any component tha

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-15 Thread Phil Wilson
Can you post the entire verbose log somehere? Phil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:11 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I'm still

[WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-15 Thread Alain Forget
I'm still wrestling with this request to restart on uninstall. To recap, I have an MSI that when I install it, and then try to uninstall it, it usually tells the user that some of the files to be uninstalled are in use and will require a reboot. However, this should not be, because the services