RE: [WiX-users] Re: CA dll not being extracted to tmp anymore

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Another noteworthy thing: You know the ErrorDialog? I only get it on the
second box below, the first one doesn't display it:

=== Verbose logging started: 6/2/2005  14:49:02  Build type: SHIP UNICODE
3.01.4000.2435  Calling process: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe ===
MSI (c) (A8:BC) [15:13:29:908]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\DOCUME~1\OCORPE~1.000\LOCALS~1\Temp\MSI46.tmp, Entrypoint:
ValidateActuateiServerSettings

And on another machine:
=== Verbose logging started: 6/2/2005  15:16:09  Build type: SHIP UNICODE
2.00.3790.00  Calling process: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe ===
MSI (c) (D4:68): Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.000\LOCALS~1\Temp\MSI243.tmp, Entrypoint:
ValidateActuateiServerSettings
MSI (c) (D4:E8): Cloaking enabled.
MSI (c) (D4:E8): Attempting to enable all disabled priveleges before calling
Install on Server
MSI (c) (D4:E8): Connected to service for CA interface.
MSI (c) (D4:DC): Note: 1: 1723 2: ValidateActuateiServerSettings 3:
ValidateActuateiServerSettings 4:
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.000\LOCALS~1\Temp\MSI243.tmp 
Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL
required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support
personnel or package vendor. Action ValidateActuateiServerSettings, entry:
ValidateActuateiServerSetting

s, library: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.000\LOCALS~1\Temp\MSI243.tmp 
MSI (c) (D4:DC): Product: AcornAcutate 1.0 -- Error 1723. There is a problem
with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to
complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.
Action ValidateActuateiServer

Settings, entry: ValidateActuateiServerSettings, library:
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.000\LOCALS~1\Temp\MSI243.tmp 

Action ended 15:16:22: ValidateActuateiServerSettings. Return value 3.
DEBUG: Error 2896:  Executing action ValidateActuateiServerSettings failed.
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package.
This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2896. The
arguments are: ValidateActuateiServerSettings, , 
Action ended 15:16:22: WelcomeDlg. Return value 3.

Thanks,

Owen Corpening
Acorn Systems
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Muguira [mailto:nic...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 2:55 PM
To: Owen Corpening
Cc: wix...@li...
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Re: CA dll not being extracted to tmp anymore

that's interesting...what version is your Windows installer?

On 6/2/05, Owen Corpening <oco...@ac...> wrote:
> nope, mine is looking for them in C:\DOCUME~1\OCORPE~1.000\LOCALS~1\Temp
> 
> "Nicholas Muguira" <nic...@gm...> wrote in message
> news:a90...@ma......
> Yeah, all your dlls will be extracted to tmp####.tmp files in
> /windows/installer, I also verified that the .tmp filename that it is
> listing isn't in the /windows/installer directory, however, there is a
> .tmp file that is the dll and it does have the right exports.
> 
> At one point I had a situation where Custom Actions A, B, C, and E
> would execute (lettering does provide order information), but if I
> would insert Action D it couldn't find it in a different .tmp file
> that didn't exist.
> 
> On 6/2/05, Owen Corpening <oco...@ac...> wrote:
> > I will work on the reproducible small example immediately.
> >
> > Here is one additional tidbit: when I run sample6.msi it extracts stuff
to
> > c:\windows\installer
> >
> > But in mine it is using temp, c:\documents and settings etc etc
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Owen Corpening
> > Acorn Systems
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicholas Muguira [mailto:nic...@gm...]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 2:06 PM
> > To: Owen Corpening
> > Cc: wix...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CA dll not being extracted to tmp anymore
> >
> > I had this problem as well, and I never figured out what causes it
> > (I'm not even sure how I fixed it which really bugs me - alot). I lost
> > an entire day trying to get rid of it, backing out changes, commenting
> > out code sections, and when I finally got it back to a working state
> > (I had to go back further than when the problem first appeared) I was
> > able to re-insert the code I had removed unchanged. This makes me
> > wonder if it's not a bug in the build process, but I have never been
> > able to reproduce it to see if there is a setting in the MSI I could
> > tweak to get it working. If you know of a way of getting this to
> > happen reliably from a blank solution so I can recreate it here, I'd
> > like to take another stab at trying to figure out what is causing
> > this.
> >
> > On 6/2/05, Owen Corpening <oco...@ac...> wrote:
> > > my install was going great, then today it stopped extracting the dll
> with
> > > all my CA's to tmp and it dies saying:
> > >
> > > "A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run"
> > >
> > > I have no idea how I got it to stop extracting it. Everything was
> working
> > > then suddenly nothing is working.
> > >
> > > Not real certain how to proceed.
> > >
> > > owen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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