Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-07-13 Thread Alain Forget
ssage- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: July 3, 2013 20:09 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Have you tried an exe that launches the updater and then immediately exits (without waiting for the updater to exit)? I'm c

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-07-04 Thread Alain Forget
nes, like having a separate dedicated updater (that now I need to worry about how to upgrade the updater, if need be :-P). So any more ideas are definitely very appreciated. Alain -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: July 4, 2013 11:27 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-07-04 Thread Phill Hogland
As Rob indicated the dependency "loop" would not exist by default. It depends on how the designer implemented the MyClient service. A Windows Service should have a control handler thread that processes events from the Service Control Manager and separate worker thread(s) that implement the functi

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-07-03 Thread Blair Murri
Have you tried an exe that launches the updater and then immediately exits (without waiting for the updater to exit)? I'm curious if that would change any of this dynamic. > From: afor...@cmu.edu > To: os...@live.com > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue >

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-07-02 Thread Alain Forget
ssage- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: July 1, 2013 18:20 To: 'Rob Mensching'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue > Burn is very self-contained and only uses files it carr

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-07-01 Thread Alain Forget
-Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: July 1, 2013 01:28 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue I don'

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-30 Thread Rob Mensching
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue > > Maybe this blog would be helpful: > > http://code.dblock.org/msi-property-patterns-upgrading-firstinstall-and-maintenance > > > > > -- > View this message in contex

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-30 Thread Alain Forget
: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Maybe this blog would be helpful: http://code.dblock.org/msi-property-patterns-upgrading-firstinstall-and-maintenance -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Upgrade-uninstall-restart-issue

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-30 Thread Phill Hogland
Maybe this blog would be helpful: http://code.dblock.org/msi-property-patterns-upgrading-firstinstall-and-maintenance -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Upgrade-uninstall-restart-issue-tp7586315p7587020.html Sent from the wix-users ma

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-29 Thread Alain Forget
eRollbackLog_pkgMyClient = C:\Windows\TEMP\My_Bundle_v1.0.1_Installer_20130629152329_0_pkgMyClient_rollback.log [0ACC:11A0][2013-06-29T15:23:39]i410: Variable: WixBundleTag = [0ACC:11A0][2013-06-29T15:23:39]i410: Variable: WixBundleVersion = 1.0.1.0 [0ACC:11A0][2013-06-29T15:23:39]i007: Exit code

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-29 Thread Alain Forget
@cmu.edu] Sent: June 4, 2013 17:02 To: 'Phil Wilson'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue I think it is verbose, but I'm not sure. However, your example showed me what to look for, and I think you&

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-05 Thread Alain Forget
L") AND UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE Neil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: 04 June 2013 23:22 To: 'Hoover, Jacob'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue &

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Phil Wilson
[mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 3:22 PM To: 'Hoover, Jacob'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue > Use orca and have a look at your Upgrade table. Looks fine to me. Here'

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
mu.edu] Sent: 04 June 2013 23:22 To: 'Hoover, Jacob'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue > Use orca and have a look at your Upgrade table. Looks fine to me. Here's the one for version 1.

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
eneral discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Use orca and have a look at your Upgrade table. Do you have OLDERVERSION_BEINGUPGRADED / NEWERVERSION_INSTALLED defined there? Are the other field values right? (Version Min/Max, U

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
, June 04, 2013 4:53 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue >> But (apparently) just running the installer still works the same, whether >> it's an MSI or EXE. > Not sure what you mean by thi

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
other WiXers determine what kind of installation is happening? Alain -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: June 4, 2013 17:19 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart i

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Use orca and have a look at your Upgrade table. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 4:19 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall res

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; 'Hoover, Jacob' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Yes, I was using msiexec /I originally, before I moved from MSIs to the bundled EXE. But (apparently) just running the installer still works the s

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
further. Does this suggest any possible solutions or at least a better understanding of the problem? Alain -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: June 4, 2013 13:33 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
13 14:12 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Your log may not be verbose. What you're looking for is something like this for a proper upgrade detection: Action start 8:15:57: Fi

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Phil Wilson
Phil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:35 AM To: 'Phil Wilson'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue I must not be understanding what

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
d the related product. Alain -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: June 4, 2013 12:39 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Upgrades don't work li

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
iexec command line. Neil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: 04 June 2013 17:32 To: Neil Sleightholm; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; 'Hoover, Jacob' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Y

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Phil Wilson
cussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; afor...@cmu.edu Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Also: Two entries in Add/Remove means the upgrade failed to upgrade. You have side by side (or on top of each other) products running, so since the upgrade did not in fact happe

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
.@x2systems.com] Sent: June 4, 2013 11:45 To: afor...@cmu.edu; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; 'Hoover, Jacob' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue One difference is that burn will only run the execute install sequence as it is running

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
olset.'; 'Hoover, Jacob' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Yes, I have 4 ServiceControl elements in the MSI, but up until this issue came up, the MSI had absolutely no problems stopping all the services, removing them, and then installing the new versions, and sta

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
e, like I am here? Alain -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: June 4, 2013 02:09 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; 'Hoover, Jacob' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Do you have m

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
#x27;; afor...@cmu.edu Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue Also: Two entries in Add/Remove means the upgrade failed to upgrade. You have side by side (or on top of each other) products running, so since the upgrade did not in fact happen I'd say that then all bets are o

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-03 Thread Neil Sleightholm
, they do all shut down in a timely fashion. Any other thoughts? Alain -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 3, 2013 14:27 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade un

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-03 Thread Phil Wilson
M To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue >From >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373667(v=vs.8>5). aspx 351 = ERROR_FAIL_SHUTDOWN Some applications could not be shut down. T

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-03 Thread Alain Forget
ughts? Alain -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 3, 2013 14:27 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue >From >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-03 Thread Hoover, Jacob
bject: [WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue We've encountered a curious problem when our bundle auto upgrades. When our client software dials home and detects that it is outdated, it downloads the newest version (1.0.1), and runs it with the following command: cmd /c start MyUp

[WiX-users] Upgrade uninstall restart issue

2013-06-03 Thread Alain Forget
We've encountered a curious problem when our bundle auto upgrades. When our client software dials home and detects that it is outdated, it downloads the newest version (1.0.1), and runs it with the following command: cmd /c start MyUpToDateBundle.exe -quiet -norestart -log MyUpToDateBundle.log