A service account that is not a local administrator seems to fail to access the
MSI service (which is also required to run validation). Thus, the problem may
not be misconfigured script engines but instead system security.
The workaround is to suppress validation in builds running non-elevated in
service accounts (non-elevated interactive accounts work fine, I haven't yet
tested non-elevated batch accounts [running the build from a scheduled task
instead of from a service]). There was also a suggestion that a "too big"
environment block may cause this as well.
Blair Murri
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:38 +0200
> From: ca.brenge...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Error LGHT0217 the system was unable to find the
> specified registry key or value
>
> Hi!
>
> Yesterday I setup a WiX project with MSBuild and everything worked fine
> when I ran it locally, and I comitted the changes.
> However, our nightly build failed with error LGHT0217. And I did read the
> FAQ and the linked blog posts on how to fix it.
>
> But the solution, as I understand it, is to modify the registry settings
> for the user executing the build job.
>
> And my problem is that I have no means of modifying the registry settings
> for the user account that executes the build job, other than via the actual
> build job.
> I did try instead to execute the registry command operations inside my
> build script, but the following commands all failed because the key did not
> exist.
>
> reg delete
> "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}" /f
> reg delete
> "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}"
> /f
> reg delete
> "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{F414C260-6AC0-11CF-B6D1-00AA00BBBB58}" /f
> reg delete
> "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{F414C260-6AC0-11CF-B6D1-00AA00BBBB58}"
> /f
>
> build 19-Jun-2013 09:59:15 Executing WiXErrorLGHT0217WorkAround
> error 19-Jun-2013 09:59:15 ERROR: The system was unable to find the
> specified registry key or value.
> error 19-Jun-2013 09:59:15 ERROR: The system was unable to find the
> specified registry key or value.
> error 19-Jun-2013 09:59:15 ERROR: The system was unable to find the
> specified registry key or value.
> error 19-Jun-2013 09:59:15 ERROR: The system was unable to find the
> specified registry key or value.
>
> Or is it possible to disable the validation?
>
> Anyone have any other ideas?
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