I added another request: I got a report that the bug occurs most often on Virtual PC virtual machines and it seems to be a common issue on various blogs.
On 4/4/2010 2:50 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > Please see http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/04/04/bug-hunting/ for > details how you can help track down the bug. > > On 4/3/2010 4:58 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> I have a similar problem. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, and it >> doesn't have anything to do with large number of files (I only have 2 >> I'm >> installing and I've been told it's a bug). >> >> I haven't found a workaround so I added a custom string file >> (CustomStrings.wxl) to my project and added: >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >> <WixLocalization Culture="en-us" >> xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization";> >> <String Id="WaitForCostingDlgText">Due to a bug in MSI, you are now >> seeing this message. Please ignore and continue.</String> >> </WixLocalization> >> >> If anyone has a better solution, I'm all ears... >> >> >> Jeff >> >> >> >>> On 4/2/2010 6:08 PM, Rajendra Magar wrote: >>>> Whenever I try to install my msi, I get a popup dialog with the >>>> message >>>> "Please wait while the installer finishes determining you disk space >>>> requirements." and "Return" button. >>>> This is right after "I accept the terms in the License Agreement" >>>> followed by "Install". The dialog stays until I hit "Return" and pops >>>> back up when I hit "Install" again. The installation eventually starts >>>> but I have to go through the same loop of seeing the dialog and >>>> returning from it at least 5-7 times. Could you please tell me what >>>> could be causing this behavior? I have a merge module (about 250M) >>>> that >>>> is part of the msi. Could the merge module be the reason? >>> If you have a lot of files and/or components, it might take MSI a long >>> time to finish costing. If you wait 10-15 seconds before clicking >>> Install, do you get the same behavior? >>> >>> -- >>> sig://boB >>> http://joyofsetup.com/ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >>> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >>> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >>> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WiX-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
