So is there any way for me to trigger a roll back in my bootstrap program? I
figured that I have two choice to solve my problem:
1. In my bootstrap program, I save out the transform being used to registry
before executing msiexec (for first time install). Then after a reboot
and during a second install attempt, if my bootstrap detected the first
install attempt's culture transform is different from the second install
attempt, I'll perform a roll back first and then do a proper new install
with a new culture transform. If the second install attempt uses the
same culture transform as the first install attempt, I'll just let
the original resume install design play out.
But I have no idea now to perform a roll back in my bootstrap. I've
tried using "msiexec /x test.msi", but it doesn't work because the
previous install was incomplete and I don't see any other msi options
to remove incomplete install.
2. My second possible approach to solve this is again save out the
Transform info to registry. But this time in my bootstrap program,
if I detected a previous incomplete install, I won't let user select
the culture at all and force use the previous install attempt's culture
and let MSI continue with the previous install.
Does anyone have a recommendation on what is a proper approach to fix this
Issue?
John Leung
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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 22:02:15 -0700
From: "Blair" <os...@live.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Issue with applying language transform after
a hard reset
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When an installation is suspended, properties that have already been setup
are retained, so what you see is by design (text straight from the DB is
transformed, text from properties is not). You need to either complete the
previous installation or roll it back.
-----Original Message-----
From: Leung, John C.H. [mailto:johnle...@ea.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:27 PM
To: Leung, John C.H.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Issue with applying language transform after a hard
reset
When I was looking at my install log file, I see the followings:
MSI (c) (80:CC) [17:12:52:556]: Checking in-progress install: install for
same configuration.
MSI (c) (80:CC) [17:12:52:556]: Suspended install detected. Resuming.
...
MSI (c) (80:CC) [17:12:52:556]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying TRANSFORMS
property. Its current value is ':en-us.mst'. Its new value: ':fr-fr.mst'.
So looks like MSI recognized a failed attempt of previous install and try to
resume previous install but not able to properly apply the original
fr-fr.mst transform and ended up with a mix of English and French text in
the dialog box.
Is there anyway to tell MSI to cleanup previous failed suspended install and
do a clean install?
John Leung
-----Original Message-----
From: Leung, John C.H.
Sent: June-02-10 5:43 PM
To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Issue with applying language transform after a hard reset
Hi,
I have created an installer that support multiple languages using transform
mst for each language. So during install, we have the command line:
msiexe.exe /i test.msi TRANSFORMS=:fr-fr.mst
The installer basically works with the normal workflow. However, I've just
been informed by our QA tester that during the install, if they did a hard
reset for their PC, and then after reboot, they run the install with a new
language, say:
msiexe.exe /i test.msi TRANSFORMS=:en-us.mst
Then they notice that during this second install, the status dialog box will
have English (the second install) for text, title, buttons, etc, but the
Status message itself remains in French (the first original install
attempt).
Is this a problem with WiX or Windows Installer itself? Did Windows
Installer leave behind any info in the registry and making it failed to
fully apply the transform after a force reset? Have anyone seen this
before? Any help is appreciated.
John Leung
Software Engineer
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