Yes, my installer uses a bundle because I have .NET Framework 4.5.1 and Visual C++ 12 runtime components as a prerequisite before running my actual product MSI.
I haven't actually tried if the upgrade failure also repros using the product MSI only instead of the bundle, I'll try that out today. Maybe it's actually something about upgrading a bundle that causes the failure to happen. In terms of what do we know, I don't think we know anything, we have yet to find anything common between the failing installers. It seems to fail for both per-user and per-machine installs, domain as well as workgroup user accounts, elevated and non-elevated privileges, none of that seems to matter. // Sascha On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:48 AM, <keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca> wrote: > Let me echo John here, I am trying to help us and also help the community. > We are worse off, too, than some, because the machines I deal with are > mostly-disconnected remotes which receive the vast majority of their tech > support via RDP if at all. It seems that most of the hypotheses around are > wrong, unless we're just unlucky. > > Sascha: I have yet to try your stuff out. I know already now that you are > dealing with MSIs in a bundle (correct?), which we don't do - we use > bundles to use Windows Update files (MSUs) only, at present. All the rest > of our stuff is just MSI. (Or rarely - testing only, I think, MSP.) So > there's a difference right off. > > I wonder (list owners willing) if it is time to play "what do we know?" > > > Keith Douglas > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca > Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 > Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] > Sent: September-08-14 2:41 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create > the default key container > > I am sure that Microsoft will ultimately have to make a fix, but I have a > lot of installers out in the wild, and I feel very exposed when none of my > testers can replicate. I'm much more interested in understanding the > mechanism of failure--especially since I can't currently replicate. > > Also, it is very hard to justify to management invoking our support > agreement when the issue does not reproduce with any of our product > installers. Much easier if I can replicate. > > I'm basically trying to figure out what is different in our installers and > deployment scenarios such that we don't see this issue. > > -- > John Merryweather Cooper > Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing > Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: > 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 1:29 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create > the default key container > > The issue is very easily reproducible for me when doing an upgrade from > one bundle to another one. I emailed Keith links to two installers that > have 100% repro for me when upgrading from the one to the other while having > KB2918614 installed. Repros on any machine. > > I'm happy to share some logs but given that KB2918614 directly determines > whether the upgrade fails or works I don't know if there is anything that > can be done to fix this from our end, it seems to me like Microsoft needs > to reissue the hotfix or have another hotfix that fixes the broken one. > > // Sascha > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, John Cooper <jocoo...@jackhenry.com> > wrote: > > > I haven't been able to reproduce this using signed or unsigned MSIs > > deploying in an "Open" or "Closed" Environment. > > > > I would be very happy to take a look at some verbose logs of the > failures. > > > > -- > > John Merryweather Cooper > > Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | > > Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS > > 66214 | Ext: 431050 | jocoo...@jackhenry.com > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] > > Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 10:40 AM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not > > create the default key container > > > > I've now tried a "small update". I've never fully understood why you’d > > use these, but my co-workers wanted to use MSPs for some of our > > updating, so I built a front end for making those and hence small > > updates. That all to say that I may be doing something unusual or > > "wrong" with them. However, that disclaimer aside, I cannot reproduce > any trouble with that either. > > > > > > Keith Douglas > > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A > > 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 > > Facsimile > > | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du > > | Canada > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] > > Sent: September-08-14 8:41 AM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not > > create the default key container > > > > Ah! There seems to be some confusion on this point. I will see. > > > > > > Keith Douglas > > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A > > 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 > > Facsimile > > | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du > > | Canada > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] > > Sent: September-06-14 1:27 PM > > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not > > create the default key container > > > > 2014-09-05 17:15 GMT-03:00 <keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca>: > > > I've gotten hold of a Windows 7 x64 VM and tried installing, > > uninstalling, repairing a few dinky products we have built installers > > for over the last while. Even added a new one with a large (100 > > megabytes > > uncompressed) payload. Tried with and without UAC for all. No troubles > > at all with the trouble KB installed. User was a domain account, for > > what that is worth. > > > > Well, previous messages indicate the problem is with minor updates. > > Did you try updates, or only install/uninstall/repair? > > > > -- > > Nicolás > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- > > Slashdot TV. > > Video for Nerds. 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