Any special way you have to open the CA dll with winzip? It's telling me the file is not a valid archive.
We're running build 3.0.4207.0 of Wix. -Tina On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Painter < chr...@deploymentengineering.com> wrote: > > YEs, you can open the resultant CA dll with Winzip and you'll see your > files. > > BTW, what build of WiX are you on? There were a few issues in older builds > that have been resolved. > > > 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, 6/17/09, Tina Basinger <tinabasin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Tina Basinger <tinabasin...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [WiX-users] Custom Action Failing > > To: "Wix Group" <WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:06 AM > > We've just upgraded our install to > > use Wix 3.0 and DTF's MakeSfxCA tool to > > package up our C# custom actions. The install works > > fine for me, but a > > colleague is getting an error (2896) calling one of the > > custom actions (full > > action log from the MSI log is below). As far as I can > > tell, this error > > indicates "Executing action [2] failed". We don't > > think it's getting into > > the custom action at all, since the first thing the action > > does is write to > > a log file and this is not occurring. > > > > We are passing all of our dependencies to call to the > > MakeSfxCA tool and the > > build log shows them being packaged into the resulting > > assembly. So > > everything that the custom action needs should be available > > to it at > > runtime. Is there a way to "un-zip" the resulting > > assembly produced by > > MakeSfxCA to verify what was incorporated into it? > > > > Does anyone have any other tips on what we should check > > for, or how to go > > about determining what the problem is? > > Thanks! > > -Tina > > > > > > > > Action start 15:08:21: ValidateUserInput. > > > > MSI (c) (14:68) [15:08:21:700]: Creating MSIHANDLE (108) of > > type 790542 for > > thread 7784 > > > > MSI (c) (14:EC) [15:08:21:720]: Invoking remote custom > > action. DLL: > > C:\Users\userName\AppData\Local\Temp\MSIFE2B.tmp, > > Entrypoint: > > ValidateUserInput > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:22:625]: Creating MSIHANDLE (109) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:22:626]: Closing MSIHANDLE (109) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:22:966]: Creating MSIHANDLE (110) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:22:967]: Closing MSIHANDLE (110) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:23:557]: Creating MSIHANDLE (111) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:23:574]: Closing MSIHANDLE (111) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:24:891]: Creating MSIHANDLE (112) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:24:892]: Closing MSIHANDLE (112) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:25:019]: Creating MSIHANDLE (113) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14!A8) [15:08:25:021]: Closing MSIHANDLE (113) of > > type 790531 for > > thread 7336 > > > > MSI (c) (14:EC) [15:08:25:291]: Closing MSIHANDLE (108) of > > type 790542 for > > thread 7784 > > > > Action ended 15:08:25: ValidateUserInput. Return value 3. > > > > MSI (c) (14:68) [15:08:25:292]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: > > Error > > > > MSI (c) (14:68) [15:08:25:293]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: > > Error 4: SELECT > > `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 2896 > > > > DEBUG: Error 2896: Executing action ValidateUserInput > > failed. > > > > The installer has encountered an unexpected error > > installing this package. > > This may indicate a problem with this package. The error > > code is 2896. 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