Hi Sandip- I was wondering the same in the back of my mind because some of our oldest services take a -Service to install and a -Unregserver to uninstall (ATL Templates, I believe), while others use InstallUtil and possibly some other utilities. Yet, they are all handled by WiX/MSI equally well using ServiceInstall/ServiceControl.
I'm glad that worked for you. Chad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sandip Ghosh Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:38 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Issues with ServiceInstall Thanks Chad! Taking out the Arguments attribute fixed it, I read the wix.chm again, Arguments is for passing the arguments to run the service not install it. I wonder how Wix/MSI figures out the arguments required to install/uninstall the service, because my services require specific parameters to install and uninstall it. Thanks again! -Sandip On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Chad Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried it without the Arguments="-Install" being part of the > syntax? From what I understand, those arguments are those needed to run > the service, not to install the service. For example, if I want to > install our service smanually, I run -Service as the paramter, but I > sure don't include that in my install as ServiceInstall takes care of it > for me. > > It seemed worth mentioning. > > Chad > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sandip > Ghosh > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:08 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Issues with ServiceInstall > > I have been installing/uninstalling services through Custom Actions > earlier. > I attempted to use ServiceInstall to install the service. The service > installs, but I cannot start it. It appears to be a permissions problem. > I > have read a bunch of posts, and have attempted some of the suggestions, > but > could not get this to work. I have tried to only install the service > through > the MSI and start the service manually, I get the error 1053 - "Service > did > not start in a timely manner". I think I was getting the 1920 error > without > the Account and Password attributes on ServiceInstall. If I attempt to > start > the service, then uninstall fails to remove it, the service goes into a > disabled state and I have to reboot to clear the service registry. I > have > tried deleting registry keys related to the service, but it did not > work. > However if I uninstall without attempting to start the service, then the > service gets correctly removed through the MSI. I could not get anything > useful out of the Event Viewer or MSI logs. This all ofcourse, works > fine if > I attempt to install/start the service through the command line, which > is > what the Custom Action was invoking. > > Here is the code snippet, its pretty similar to what others have posted. > > <Component Id="atlantis" Guid="65822460-7229-4935-94e7-449baf1ca86c" > DiskId="1"> > <File Id="file0" Name="file0" LongName="AtlantisAgent.exe" > src="d:\test\atlantis\AtlantisAgent.exe" KeyPath="yes" /> > <ServiceInstall Id="atlantisagentwinservice" > Name="AtlantisAgentWinService" Arguments="-Install" > DisplayName="AtlantisAgentWinService" Description="Atlantis Agent > Windows > Service" ErrorControl="normal" Start="auto" Type="ownProcess" > Account="[SERVICEACCOUNT]" Password="[SERVICEPASSWORD]"/> > <ServiceControl Id="atlantisagentwinservice" > Name="AtlantisAgentWinService" Remove="uninstall" Wait="yes"/> > </Component> > > I am using Wix 2.0.4820. > > Thanks, > -Sandip > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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