I have to agree with the others on this mailing list. You need to leave the server process alone. The requirement from your customer is wrong.
Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: Bisht, Pradeep [mailto:pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:06 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > when our installer starts I see that: under processes "msiexec.exe" starts > running and under services "msiserver" start running. Once our installer > completes, msiexec is no longer visible in task manager while msiserver > keeps running untill after 10 minutes and then its status changes to > "stopped". > Customer's requirement is to stop msiserver immediately after our > installation completes. All of our custom actions are synchronous > return=check. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)" <edwin.cas...@fiserv.com> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 2:53:43 PM > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > I don't think you should be trying to stop "msiserver.exe". > > 1.) I don't know what "msiserver.exe" is. I would expect to see msiexec.exe > but you certainly don't want to stop these process as one of them will be > yourself. > 2.) The Windows Installer architecture uses a client process and a server > process. You really want the OS to determine when the server process is > ready to die if at all. The client process should not be killed as that will > kill > yourself as I mentioned above. > > Seems to me like the requirement interpretation should be "make sure you > wait for any exe custom actions your spin up during your installation." WiX > will let you wait for their completion already. > > Edwin G. Castro > Software Developer - Staff > Electronic Banking Services > Fiserv > Office: 503-746-0643 > Fax: 503-617-0291 > www.fiserv.com > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bisht, Pradeep [mailto:pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:42 PM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > > > Thanks for responding. > > > > The top installer is not ours it is of our customer who takes software > > from us and several other vendors. Their top level installer expects > > our installer to stop all the processes that started for our > > installation and that includes msiserver.exe also. If I use service > > APIs what will be the id for the > msiserver > > service? Can you please point me to a sample code. Thanks. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: "Wilson, Phil" <phil.wil...@invensys.com> > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 12:33:08 PM > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > > > It sounds like you have a design that expects the Windows Installer > >service (or some number of processes called msiexec.exe?) to stop when > >a bunch of your installs have finished. The Windows Installer service > >isn't a child process! > > Like any other Windows service you stop it with the service APIs, but > >really, your design is just very very wrong. If those other installs > >are completely > out > > of your control (and you can't install them yourself so you *know* > > when they > > complete) you'd be better off polling for the ProductCode of last one > > you launched to see when it is finally installed. > > > > > > Phil Wilson > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bisht, Pradeep [mailto:pradeep_bi...@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:05 PM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] how to stop msiserver after installation; > > > > After my installer finishes, msiserver keeps running for long time. > >How can I stop it? Our top level installer package (not MSI based) > >waits for all the child > > > > processes launched by a specific installer to end/stop before it can > > proceed with the installation of other packages. How can I stop > > msiserver? Any help will > > > > be highly appreciated. 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