Yes, even in the failure case I would have expected to see those lines in the log about extracting to temp directory before attempting to call rundll32.
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:34 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Jason Ginchereau Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure One question... I haven't looked through the code but I've noticed in a logfile where it works it mentions that it has extracted the custom action to temporary directory but when it fails it just says it failed to create the process. I'm guessing that you would first have to extract to temp before calling rundll32 so I'm not sure why it wouldn't state as much in the logfile just to show you how far it's gotten. But maybe my high level understanding is not accurate. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Wed, 3/25/09, Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > From: Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure > To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>, > "Jason Ginchereau" <jason...@microsoft.com> > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 11:49 AM > > Cool, thanks. I've been given a VM image by > development so I'm going to do extensive profiling on my end > to try to give you something more to work with. > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread > that deserves attention? E-Mail Me > > > --- On Wed, 3/25/09, Jason Ginchereau <jason...@microsoft.com> > wrote: > > > From: Jason Ginchereau <jason...@microsoft.com> > > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure > > To: "chr...@deploymentengineering.com" > <chr...@deploymentengineering.com>, > "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 11:46 AM > > OK... While I can't repro, I see how > > I can make that code more robust so that it will > probably > > solve this problem. Please try the build that comes > out at > > the end of this week. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:58 AM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; > > Jason Ginchereau > > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action Failure > > > > > > > > Rundll32.exe exists in system32 and system32 is at > the > > front of the path. > > > > I type a command like below I get a dialog as > expected: > > > > RUNDLL32.EXE SHELL32.DLL,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,0 > > > > > > > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering > Blog > > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good > thread > > that deserves attention? E-Mail Me > > > > > > --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Jason Ginchereau <jason...@microsoft.com> > > wrote: > > > > > From: Jason Ginchereau <jason...@microsoft.com> > > > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action > Failure > > > To: "'chr...@deploymentengineering.com'" > > <chr...@deploymentengineering.com>, > > "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 7:05 PM > > > Error code 2 is file not found. The > > > file in this case that wasn't found was > > rundll32.exe... > > > which is a bit strange. Is that file missing on > the > > target > > > system or is %PATH% set to not include the > SYSTEM32 > > > directory? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:03 PM > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF Custom Action > Failure > > > > > > > > > SFXCA: Failed to create new CA process via > RUNDLL32. > > Error > > > code: 2 > > > > > > Anyone ever seen this or mitigated this? I work > in > > an > > > industry that sometimes takes machine security > > postures to > > > an extreme so we might be tripping up some > dependency > > in > > > DTF. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework > and > > Flex > > > Builder(TM) are > > > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform > > > capabilities. 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