I can't help but I have seen something similar to 1 - my DTF action is an immediate action that just reads the registry and sets a property, 99% of the time it is fine. The tracing all indicates it is ok but on exit it returns "value 3", no logs, exception or anything useful - run again and it is fine. I started to think the problem was in DTF but I never got a good enough repro to debug it.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: 24 January 2012 16:35 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Two Wierd Installer Problems - DTF and QuietExec I have an installer that I wrote that I've been pushing out through SCCM. We have deployed to about 600 servers so far and so far I've seen 6 failures. There are 3 of one failure mode and 3 of another. 1) C# DTF terminates with 1603 This one is wierd. It's a deferred CA that get's it's CustomActionData property and then does something for each record in the collection. There's actually no records in the collection so therefore nothing to do. I don't get any kind of .NET stack dump it just simply logs that it started and then poof the CA returns with a 1603. On the other 597 servers it works ( i.e. does nothing ) just fine. ( Trivia: it's really an uninstall custom action that can be instructed to remove something during an install I just haven't neeed to yet. ) If I run this install again on the same machine it works. 2) I use a QuietExecCA64 to call dism to install a Windows feature. I see in the log that DISM added the feature and completed successfully but then that's the end of my MSI log. It's like either DISM didn't actually terminate of the C++ code didn't terminate and it hung MSI. SCCM then waited a period of time ( 20 minutes ) and decided that the MSI was orphaned and killed it followed by a reboot. All of these machines are Server 2008 R2 SP1. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I could redo #1 as a C++ CA and I could factor the DISM call out of the MSI and into the SCCM task sequence but I think at this point people are willing to take their changes since we are already 25% into the deployment. I'm wondering if there are any bugs in DTF and or the QuietExec patterns that need to be investigated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
