That worked! When the service install fails the error box now has an "Ignore" option. When I saw that option in the docs it never occurred to me that it might also control the criticality of the item, I figured turning it off would just make the installation continue on a little further before it died. Thanks!
So does anyone know of a way to make it always choose "Ignore" without popping up the window first? And KStuart, when I first started looking into this problem I found a couple posts from last year saying things like: "The assemblies are not committed until successful execution of the InstallFinalize Action. This means that if you author a custom action or resource that relies on the assembly, it must be sequenced after the InstallFinalize Action. For example, if you need to start a service that depends on an assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), you must schedule the starting of that service after the InstallFinalize Action. This means you cannot use the ServiceControl Table to start the service, instead you must use a custom action that is sequenced after InstallFinalize." That certainly seems to indicate that if I want the services to start on a system where the assemblies haven't already been installed I'd have to make a custom action to do it, and we probably don't have time to deal with that before the release, which is why we're trying to get the "fire and forget" method working. On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's possible that setting the ServiceControl Wait value to 0 might make a > difference. Generally speaking, this is the way you say you don't care if the > service starts properly or not. However the documentation says that the SCM > needs to get the service into pending state, and I don't know off the top of > my head if this means the process has to at least start (and missing > dependencies could mean it doesn't). > > Phil Wilson > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of KStuart > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:18 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Failing gracefully from ServiceControl? > > > I haven't been using windows installer/wix very long so am a little confused, > from what I can see the default behaviour of the install sequence is to > process all files before attempting to start any services, therefore if your > product includes dependent assemblies they will already have processed > before the StartServices action, in fact starting services is close to the > last action in the install sequence, of course you can always move it > further back. > > If you're installing several services are you sure you don't have any > inter-service dependencies you're not taking care of? > > You can always check if the dependencies are already installed and skip > trying to start the service if they are not, but like I said, if your > product is installing those assemblies anyhow it shouldn't be an issue. > > > Geoff Finger-2 wrote: > > > > I've got several services I'm trying to install. If I add > > "Start='install'" to the ServiceControl element then it will try to > > start them, but it will almost always fail with a 1920 error. I'm > > pretty sure this is because some of the services are dependent on > > side-by-side assemblies that are being installed at the same time and > > so won't be available until the install actually finishes. > > > > However is there a way to make it so that it will attempt to start the > > services but _not_ force a rollback if it fails? There are at least > > some circumstances where the assemblies might already have been > > installed by another package and it would be nice to at least make the > > attempt. There doesn't seem to be any "Vital" attribute for the > > ServiceControl element that I can set to "no." There is a "Vital" for > > ServiceInstall, but I can't set that to "no" even if it would fix the > > above problem, because it _is_ vital that they at least install > > properly, even if they don't start right away, and the same goes for > > "ErrorControl" in the ServiceInstall element as well I think. > > > > As an added bonus, if the above can be done is there also a way to do > > the service start step silently? We're expecting it to fail most of > > the time so there's no need to pop up an error message about it if it > > does. > > > > Thanks! > > > > And here's the code I've got in case it matters: > > > > <ServiceInstall Id="SystemServiceInstall" > > DisplayName="$(loc.IDS_SERVER) $(var.MAJORVER).$(var.MINORVER)" > > Description="$(loc.IDS_SERVER_SERVICE) > > $(var.MAJORVER).$(var.MINORVER)" Name="ServerService" > > ErrorControl="normal" Start="auto" Type="ownProcess" Vital="yes"> > > <ServiceDependency Id ="HTTP" /> > > </ServiceInstall> > > > > <ServiceControl Id="SystemServiceControl" Name="ServerService" > > Start="install" Stop="uninstall" Remove="uninstall" /> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. 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