On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 8:33:10 PM UTC+2, Nicolas Wendlowsky wrote: > > Recently updated approximately 250 users with a silent install of > TortoiseSVN 10.10.1.28295 using just the normal MSI params of "/QN /L*v > $logpath". > > Most machines were running version 1.9.7.27907. > > During the install, the MSI failed due to not having permission to the > "C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin" even while running as SYSTEM. Further > research led me to > https://dandar3.blogspot.com/2012/04/tortoisesvn-installation-insufficient.html > > from way back in 2012 regarding the TSVNCache.exe process locking that > folder. Testing it out on my users showed this to be the cause; once > TSVNCache.exe was killed, the original silent script worked as expected. > > Can this process be killed or gracefully closed from within the installer > MSI to mitigate this behavior? >
Actually, it *is* closed. But due to the fact that it automatically starts again if any explorer process fetches an overlay icon from TSVN, this usually doesn't last. What you have to do is to make the silent install ignore open processes and just proceed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19412840/msiexec-default-to-do-not-close-application-in-silent-mode -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/85472389-1d97-4a2a-85f4-98a53581bd17%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
