Just for clarity the service isnt being installed into the GAC, just one of the dlls it references is. I'll have to go back and double check, maybe my vista and W2K3 installs just worked because the machines weren't clean and already had a version of the dll gac'd. Thanks for the helpful and very quick response :-) -john
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:12 PM To: LEMIRE, JOHN Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Service start fails LEMIRE, JOHN wrote: > I'm running into a problem on XP with <ServiceControl> failing to > start my service. It appears that it's trying to start it before > another <Component> it depends on is installed into the GAC. I don't > see any way to note the order in the wix schema but using orca I can > see that in the file table the dll to be gac'd has sequence #1 and the > exe that is the service to start has sequence #2. File sequences don't matter in this instance. The problem is that assemblies aren't installed to the GAC until the install is being committed. (MSI hands that off to the Fusion subsystem.) ServiceControl must be in the installation transaction so it can't start a service being installed to the GAC. You'd need a custom action to start such a service. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
