Hi,
I have a WiX 3.5 project that installs and starts a windows service and
thereafter executes a custom action to configure the service using command
line utility sc.exe that ships with the OS.
This MSI can be used both for fresh install or major upgrade.
It uses custom dialogs to capture user information in global properties
(which can be passed from command line as well).
For a fresh install, the MSI installation succeeds whether run in normal or
quiet mode (UI enabled/suppressed).
However, for a major upgrade, installation succeeds only in normal mode,
but fails in quiet mode with sc.exe failing to find the installed service
(error details below).
My initial hunch was that with UI enabled, there is sufficient time lag
between execution of service installation and configuring steps so that
sc.exe succeeds in finding the service installed.
In quiet mode OTOH, the steps may get executed too quickly for sc.exe to
find the service installed and hence the failure.
To test this, I tweaked the InstallExecuteSequence to increase the
"distance" between StartServices and the custom action (even introduced a
sleep in an intermediate custom action), but to no avail.
I also looked into the InstallUISequence but couldn't see anything that
might impact service installation or config steps.
Any thoughts what could be the cause/remedy?
Appreciate all pointers.
Sameer
OS is Win7, but not sure if OS is a factor here.
--- Error from installation log: Begin----
...
MSI (s) (A0:0C) [08:50:40:235]: Executing op:
CustomActionSchedule(Action=QtExecDeferred,ActionType=3073,Source=BinaryData,Target=CAQuietExec,CustomActionData="C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sc.exe"
sidtype "<service name>" "unrestricted")
MSI (s) (A0:7C) [08:50:40:278]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\Windows\Installer\MSIB16A.tmp, Entrypoint: CAQuietExec
MSI (s) (A0:C0) [08:50:40:278]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (A0:C0) [08:50:40:283]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 7120
(0x1BD0).
MSI (s) (A0:A8) [08:50:40:320]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (A0:A8) [08:50:40:322]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Elevated custom
action server.
CAQuietExec: OpenService FAILED 1060:
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070424: Command line returned an error.
CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070424: CAQuietExec Failed
CustomAction QtExecDeferred returned actual error code 1603 (note this may
not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
...
--- Error from installation log: End----
---- WiX Code snippets: Begin ----
<!--Custom Action definition-->
<CustomAction Id="SetServiceSidToUnrestricted_CmdLine"
Property="QtExecDeferred" Value='"[SystemFolder]sc.exe" sidtype
"$(var.agentHostServiceName)" "$(var.agentServiceSidType)"' />
<CustomAction Id="QtExecDeferred" BinaryKey="WixCA"
DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="check" Impersonate="no"/>
...
<!-- InstallExecuteSequence-->
...
<InstallInitialize Sequence=n />
...
<InstallServices Sequence=x>VersionNT</InstallServices>
<StartServices Sequence=x+1>VersionNT</StartServices>
<!--Run this custom action on install/upgrade/repair, do not run only
on an uninstall -->
<Custom Action="QtExecDeferred" After="StartServices">
<![CDATA[
NOT ((REMOVE~="ALL") AND (NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE))
]]>
</Custom>
....
<InstiallFinalize/>
---- WiX Code snippets: End----
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