Re: [WiX-users] Failed to install WiX v3.6

2011-11-22 Thread Rob Mensching
As Bruce notes second, the log file in %TEMP% is the fastest way to figure out what went wrong. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On 16/11/2011 12:06, Harper wrote: What's wrong? How can I get information, why it failed? And how can this be fixed? One

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to install WiX v3.6

2011-11-22 Thread Andreas
I tried the install on a different machine monitoring the network traffic as well as analyzing the log file. There was a problem that the Wix36.exe failed to download ProjectAggregator2 although this was already installed. The network traffic includeded a download request for

[WiX-users] Failed to install WiX v3.6

2011-11-16 Thread Harper
I tried to install WiX 3.6.2221.0 on a computer. After some seconds the message *Failed to install* appears in the UI. I can Try Again, but this does not gives any better result. Due to boot manager I could try this with Windows7(64) as well was with Windows XP(32) SP3. Unfortunately the

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to install WiX v3.6

2011-11-16 Thread Peter Bulyaki
Hi, It is an exe because it is a bundle installer (it is installing multiple MSI files I assume). A bundle can't be an msi, it is because of the limitations of the msi format. - The exact same problem happened to me when my Windows Installer service got broken. You should try re-registering it:

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to install WiX v3.6

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On 16/11/2011 12:06, Harper wrote: What's wrong? How can I get information, why it failed? And how can this be fixed? One thing that's different from a successful installation is that it failed on a computer that's a member of a domain. But I am not aware of policies that disallow software