Harvey,
I'm not really familiar with silent installs, but based on
comments others have made previously, I wonder if it's a sequencing
issue.
I believe that the registry scanning would occur during the
"AppSearch" process. This is typically sequenced after the "LaunchConditions",
but according to the WiX documentation may be sequenced
before.
If AppSearch is not present in your InstallExecuteSequence
before the LaunchConditions, then this may be the source of your problem. (It
doesn't matter if AppSearch is in both InstallExecuteSequence and
InstallUISequence, it will only be triggered once - again, according to the
documentation.)
Regards,
Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harvey Werner
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 19:47
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with silent installs
I am having a
problem where an MSI built with WiX is not installing in silent mode using
"msiexec /qn /i update.msi", but it installs just fine in UI
mode.
I am using the WiX
toolset version 3.0.1319.0 and building an x86 version of my
MSI.
Here is the
pertinent code. It is supposed to find a directory location through the
registry.
<Condition
Message="$(var.prod.name) is not installed. Please install it before trying again.">
<![CDATA[(MYDIR AND MYGUIVERDIR) OR REMOVE]]>
</Condition>
Message="$(var.prod.name) is not installed. Please install it before trying again.">
<![CDATA[(MYDIR AND MYGUIVERDIR) OR REMOVE]]>
</Condition>
...
<Property Id="MYGUIVERDIR">
<RegistrySearch Id="REG_MY_GUIVERSION" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\COMPANY\DIRECTORY" Name="GuiVersionDir" Type="directory" Win64="$(var.Win64)" />
</Property>
<RegistrySearch Id="REG_MY_GUIVERSION" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\COMPANY\DIRECTORY" Name="GuiVersionDir" Type="directory" Win64="$(var.Win64)" />
</Property>
<Property Id="MYDIR">
<RegistrySearch Id="REG_MY_LOCATION" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\COMPANY\DIRECTORY" Name="Location" Type="directory" Win64="$(var.Win64)" />
</Property>
Orca shows this in the LaunchCondition table:
The
Condition column: "(PMXSDIR AND PMXSGUIVERDIR) OR
REMOVE"
The
Description column: "<my product> for Windows is not installed. Please
install it before trying again."
And the
RegLocator tables looks OK too. It has REG_MY_LOCATION and REG_MY_GUIVERSION in the Signature column as I would
expect.
In UI mode,
regmon shows the registry being probed in the location expected, but not in
silent mode.
Has anyone
experienced this before where silent installs fail, but the UI mode install is
OK?
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Harvey Werner / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
971.327.5279
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