Hi Blair On 08/04/2010 03:15 PM, Blair wrote: > The portions of log you show here shows that Windows Installer quite clearly > thinks that the previous version is installed per-user. And this list often > looses attachments, so you may need to share the log via some other > location. Here is the full log: http://pastebin.com/MrhswVsC
Thx Luk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lukasz Zalewski [mailto:lu...@eecs.qmul.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:57 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] msi upgrade problems per-user vs per-machine context > failure > > Hi all, > I'am trying to upgrade existing package through major upgrade. > The upgrade is done through wpkg (wpkg.org) patching system and it runs > using machine account. > When i run the upgrade using Administrator account (interactively) all goes > smoothly. However when the upgrade is applied through the patching system it > goes wrong i.e. the following appears in the logs (which i believe is the > cause of my problems): > MSI (s) (78:4C) [20:14:06:466]: Determined that existing product (either > this product or the product being upgraded with a patch) is installed > per-user. > > and then > MSI (s) (78:4C) [20:14:06:555]: FindRelatedProducts: current install is > per-user. Related install for product > '{A70E99ED-87C6-4142-88A7-8491459494A2}' is per-machine. Skipping... > > I have found various post regarding similar errors which conclude that > cross-context installation is not possible. What i want to do is to force > the install to be in per-machine context. I have added ALLUSERS=1 property > to the wix file, tried running msiexec with /jm flag and event passed > ALLUSERS=1 as a parameter to the installer. Still the installation is > per-user and the ALLUSERS initially set to 1 is unset: > MSI (s) (78:4C) [20:14:06:467]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting ALLUSERS property. > Its current value is '1'. > > I'm 100% sure that the previous version > ({A70E99ED-87C6-4142-88A7-8491459494A2}) is installed per-machine. > Initially i thought it was a problem with patching system, but i have tested > upgrade process of other application and the update is correctly installed > using per-machine mode. > > I have used orca to look at the various properties (of my two packages and > the other application packages), and do not see anything massively out of > ordinary. The installer script is also quite basic. I'm quite new to wix so > any help would be much appreciated > > The wix version is 3.0 and machine that the package is being updated on is > Windows7 x64. I have attached zipped log file from the failed upgrade. > > Many thanks > > Lukasz > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
