We already had a validator extension. I added a semaphore to limit the number of simultaneous validations, and played with the number of concurrent validations we allowed. Only when I moved it to 1 (one) did the errors go away for a couple of weeks now.
It appears based on observation that Windows Installer does not support concurrent validations (at least with Windows 2003). I haven't tried it on Windows 2008 to see if there is any difference (our build lab is still using 2003). -----Original Message----- From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:14 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] error LGHT0217 - The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed I thought as much but got no response from the Windows Installer team after inquiry. I'm curious to know, however, if any other parties on the Wix alias are experiencing the same issue. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:01 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] error LGHT0217 - The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed If there are issues they are in the Windows Installer since they provide the tool for validation. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 08:49 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] error LGHT0217 - The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed Hi, We've recently seen the following error sometimes in builds. When we retry the build leg, the error disappears. We've caught the error on different build machines with different products where 3.0/2.0 wix are used. Product with 3.0 wix: 1>errors in directory e:\sdaws\main\product\installer\productwebsite 1>e:\sdaws\main\product\installer\productwebsite\light.exe : error LGHT0217 : Error executing ICE action 'ICE01'. The most common cause of this kind of ICE failure is an incorrectly registered scripting engine. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq.html#Error217 for details and how to solve this problem. The following string format was not expected by the external UI message logger: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance.". 1>e:\sdaws\main\product\installer\productwebsite\urtrun.pl : error "light.exe -ext WixUtilExtension -ext WixIIsExtension -nologo -wx -out e:\sdaws\main.obj.amd64fre\product\installer\productwebsite\objfre\amd64\PRODUCTWebService_x64.msi e:\sdaws\main.obj.amd64fre\product\installer\productwebsite\objfre\amd64\PRODUCTWebSiteInstaller.wixobj" => light.exe failed with ExitCode=217 1>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'e:\SDAWS\MAIN\tools\urtrun.CMD' : return code '0x1' e:\SDAWS\MAIN\tools\x86\nmake.exe /nologo BUILDMSG=Stop. /nologo /f e:\sdaws\main\tools\makefile.def BUILD_PASS=PASS2 LINKONLY=1 NOPASS0=1 MAKEDIR_RELATIVE_TO_BASEDIR=product\installer\productwebsite MAKEDIR_LOWERCASE=e:\sdaws\main\product\installer\productwebsite failed - rc = 2 Product with 2.0 wix: 5>e:\panorama\main_dev_igx\product\setup\redists\lclient\internal\light.exe : error LGHT0217 : An unexpected external UI message was received: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. Searching on web seems to have something related to ICE validation. https://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3588567&SiteID=1 Checking "Supress ICE validation" in the WiX project settings solved my issues. light.exe : error LGHT0217: An unexpected external UI message was received: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. We're wondering if there is a potential conflict of running multiple Light.exe on multi-proc machines. Our build machines are OS 2003, 4-8 CPUs. 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