1) Does vsixinstaller.exe require elevation (and are you running it from an elevated commandline)? 2) Do you elevate before starting MSI during your install? 3) Does vsixinstaller.exe use/require access to your user profile? Does that profile access include process environment variables? Those can be quite different between a commandline in an interactive session and a process launched from a process started by a service running as SYSTEM.
-----Original Message----- From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 5:38 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling VSIX fails as CustomAction, but succeeds when run from cmd Yes, I suck at wix. Thanks for pointing that out. Now, about my original question? Any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:13 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling VSIX fails as CustomAction, but succeeds when run from cmd Importance: Low Environment vars? -----Original Message----- From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:47 PM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstalling VSIX fails as CustomAction, but succeeds when run from cmd Wondering if anyone has tried reversing a vsix install. I have a custom action that runs on install, and the uninstall version which runs on uninstall. The install works perfectly, but the uninstall fails for apparently no reason. <CustomAction Id="InstallTemplates" Directory="VerDir" Execute="commit" Impersonate="yes" ExeCommand='"[...snip...]vsixinstaller.exe" "[INSTALLDIR]\DerpTemplates.vsix" /q'/> <CustomAction Id="UninstallTemplates" Directory="VerDir" Execute="commit" Impersonate="yes" ExeCommand='"[...snip...]vsixinstaller.exe" /u:DerpTemplates.aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeeeeeeeee'/> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="InstallTemplates" Before="InstallFinalize"> <![CDATA[NOT Installed]]> </Custom> <Custom Action="UninstallTemplates" Before="InstallFinalize"> <![CDATA[Installed AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE]]> </Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> (they've been shortened down a bit of course). The weird this is that although the uninstall fails, I have confirmed that the command is 100% correct. I ran the uninstall while logging. In the log, I copied out the command that the custom action reported it was going to execute. I then pasted that into a command shell and ran it. It worked without any issue. I tried to turn off error checking in the custom action by adding 'Return="ignore"' but, while the uninstall didn't fail, the custom action still didn't uninstall my templates. Has anyone experience in this? Why would my custom action fail in the installer, however succeed when the command is executed outside of the MSI? TIA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
