Hi Dieter,
Thanks for the reply and prompt action. I've checked the new installer
version and can confirm that it works in my system. Now to answer your
questions:
- Is UAC enabled or disabled on your system?
It is set at the second notch ('Notify me only when programs try to make
changes to my computer")
- Did you at some point get an UAC elevation prompt?
No. Other programs do, but pygtk installer did not.
- If you got an UAC prompt, did it ask to log in with
a different account?
N/A
- Are you logged into Windows with a user, power user or admin
user account?
Yes. I have administrator privileges in the system.
Thanks again. Please let me know if you need any more input from my side.
Hope this discussion helps the other users.
Assela
On 26 March 2012 23:34, Dieter Verfaillie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:38:32 +0200, Assela Pathirana wrote:
>
>> Here's what I did
>> 1. I ran the msi installer (python-2.6.msi) as an admin user. - works
>> OK.
>> 2. started pygtk-all-in-one-2.24.1.win32- py2.6.msi as the same user
>> 3. The installer identifies python (The second screen -- where we make
>> component choices -- shows "Python 2.6 (installed for all users):
>> c:python26"
>> 4. After two screen the installer stops for a few seconds and then
>> the following message appears.
>> "TARGETDIR property is not set."
>> 5. I even tried with TARGETDIR=c:python26 property on the msiexec
>> command line, but same problem.
>>
>> Some screenshots :
>> https://dimos.ihe.nl/public/**assela/Untitled.png<https://dimos.ihe.nl/public/assela/Untitled.png>[1]
>>
>> (Ignore the ssl certificate warning -- I don't have one!)
>> Installer log :
>> https://dimos.ihe.nl/public/**assela/pygtk-all-in-one.rar<https://dimos.ihe.nl/public/assela/pygtk-all-in-one.rar>[2]
>>
>
> Just curious, but could you still answer the following questions:
> - Is UAC enabled or disabled on your system?
> - Did you at some point get an UAC elevation prompt?
> - If you got an UAC prompt, did it ask to log in with
> a different account?
> - Are you logged into Windows with a user, power user or admin
> user account?
>
> So, the log file you provided hints at what might be causing the
> problem at lines 4611, 4612, 4616, 4617 and 4620:
> MSI (s) (C0:7C) [14:45:08:936]: Ignoring disallowed property PYTHON.MACHINE
> MSI (s) (C0:7C) [14:45:08:936]: Ignoring disallowed property TARGETDIR
> MSI (s) (C0:7C) [14:45:08:936]: Ignoring disallowed property USERNAME
> MSI (s) (C0:7C) [14:45:08:936]: Ignoring disallowed property SOURCEDIR
> MSI (s) (C0:7C) [14:45:08:936]: Ignoring disallowed property ROOTDRIVE
>
> In short, it seems that marking the TARGETDIR property as secure should
> fix this issue.
>
>
> TLDR version (do read, there's a surprise at the end):
>
> Researched this a bit and it seems to be a known interaction
> between UAC and the Windows Installer engine.
> Particularly, non-restricted public property values aren’t being
> carried over from the UI sequence (the GUI part where you answer
> various questions) to the *server side* execute sequence (the
> part that executes the deferred transaction script and as such
> does the real work) under certain circumstances.
> Note that at the time of authoring the installer I only had access
> to an XP machine (and in the mean time have not yet had sufficient
> bad luck to encounter this problem myself on my 64 bit Windows 7
> machine) :/
>
> So, of the above properties:
> - USERNAME is not set nor needed by our installer so we should
> be able to safely ignore it.
> - PYTHON.MACHINE (and it's PYTHON.USER counterpart when doing a
> per user installation), ROOTDRIVE and SOURCEDIR are not used
> during the server side execute sequence, so hopefully there is
> no reason to pass these on.
>
> That leaves only TARGETDIR that we should take care of and indeed
> it is not listed as one of the restricted public properties
> on [1]. Leading to the RequireTargetDir custom action [2]
> correctly panicking and presenting you with the error message
> you've been seeing.
>
> Finally, here we are with some experimental PyGTK All-in-one
> installer 2.24.3 builds with the TARGETDIR property marked as
> secure:
> http://optionexplicit.be/tmp/**2.24.3/<http://optionexplicit.be/tmp/2.24.3/>
>
> Could you give these a spin and report back? Note: these are as
> of yet completely untested and I'll only be able to start executing
> the huge list of tests (install/repair/change/**uninstall on XP, 7 etc)
> tomorrow evening, before considering uploading them to ftp.gnome.org.
>
> Thanks,
> Dieter
>
> [1]
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/library/aa371243%28v=vs.85%**29.aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371243%28v=vs.85%29.aspx>
> [2] https://github.com/dieterv/**pygtk-installer/blob/master/**
> wix/template/PyGtk.wxs#L110<https://github.com/dieterv/pygtk-installer/blob/master/wix/template/PyGtk.wxs#L110>
>
>
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Assela Pathirana,
UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
T: +31(0)15 215 1854
Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, The Netherlands
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