Re: [Puppet Users] Windows MSI Error "change from absent to present failed: Failed to install: Fail on INT 24."

2013-03-08 Thread Josh Cooper
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:40 AM, jim wrote: > Hello Michael and Josh > > Thanks for your quick responses, Michael "The package { source => } > directive for MSIs *must* use backslashes." worked a charm thanks again > > would be nice in next versions, if this was all uniform > > thanks again > > J

Re: [Puppet Users] Windows MSI Error "change from absent to present failed: Failed to install: Fail on INT 24."

2013-02-14 Thread jim
Hello Michael and Josh Thanks for your quick responses, Michael "The package { source => } directive for MSIs *must* use backslashes." worked a charm thanks again would be nice in next versions, if this was all uniform thanks again James On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:45:07 UTC, Michael O'De

Re: [Puppet Users] Windows MSI Error "change from absent to present failed: Failed to install: Fail on INT 24."

2013-02-12 Thread Michael O'Dea
Answering my own question, and hopefully jim's as well! I had just had my module open in Geppetto, which yelled at me for having used backslashes in the MSI's package definition. I switched them to forward slashes to make it happy, and it appears as though jim's code above also uses forward s

Re: [Puppet Users] Windows MSI Error "change from absent to present failed: Failed to install: Fail on INT 24."

2013-02-12 Thread Michael O'Dea
Hopefully not thread hijacking, hope my issue is the same. Strangely, I had this problem last week and then resolved it when I made a few more changes to the MSI. The issue has just now returned for me, and I'm not clear how my latest changes (from a debug mode package to a release package) w

Re: [Puppet Users] Windows MSI Error "change from absent to present failed: Failed to install: Fail on INT 24."

2013-02-12 Thread Josh Cooper
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:06 AM, jim wrote: > Hello all, > > i'm having a few issues whilst trying to install 2 different msi packages > and getting the same error and was wondering if anyone could shed some > light on where i'm going wrong:- > > > class roles::base::ntsyslog { > > file { 'C:/Ins

[Puppet Users] Windows MSI Error "change from absent to present failed: Failed to install: Fail on INT 24."

2013-02-12 Thread jim
Hello all, i'm having a few issues whilst trying to install 2 different msi packages and getting the same error and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on where i'm going wrong:- class roles::base::ntsyslog { file { 'C:/Installs/NTSyslog2.msi': source => 'puppet:///mod