It sounds like your service just doesn't work under Vista. Can you run it as a
normal exe? Have
you tried putting any logging in your service to see how far it gets?
Rob
SaiTeja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a service installed on windows vista. The startup type for this
> service is "Automatic". The service is not starting after reboot. When i try
> starting the service from Service Control Manager, the error is something
> like "Windows could not start the service on Local Computer Error 1067: The
> process terminated unexpectedly". The event logs just displays "The service
> terminated unexpectedly"
>
> Following is my WIX Code.
>
> <Component Id="service.exe" Guid="{8382F93F-A092-4344-9996-845A9F7DF9A7}">
> <Condition>(NOT VersionNT=500) AND (NOT VersionNT64)</Condition>
> <File Id="service.exe" Name="svc_1" KeyPath="yes"
> LongName="service.exe" Compressed="yes" DiskId="1" Source="service.exe" />
> <ServiceControl Id=SvcEvent" Name="Svc" Stop="uninstall"
> Remove="uninstall" />
> <ServiceInstall Id="NewServiceInstall2" Name="Svc"
> DisplayName="Service" Type="ownProcess" Start="auto" ErrorControl="normal"
> Description="Enables the Client service. If this service is stopped,
> Client-protected content will be unavailable.">
> <ServiceDependency Id="EventLog" />
> <ServiceDependency Id="RpcSs" />
> <ServiceDependency Id="Dnscache" />
> <ServiceDependency Id="CryptSvc" />
> <ServiceDependency Id="TermService" />
> </ServiceInstall>
> </Component>
>
>
> <CustomAction Id="StartService" Return="check" Execute="commit"
> impersonate="no"ExeCommand="startservice" FileKey="xyz.exe">
> </CustomAction>
>
> <InstallExecuteSequence>
> <InstallInitialize Sequence="1500"/>
> <StopServices Sequence="1900">versionNT</StopServices>
> <DeleteServices Sequence="2200">versionNT</DeleteServices>
> ------
> <InstallServices Sequence="5800">versionNT</InstallServices>
> <StartServices Sequence="5900">versionNT</StartServices>
> <Custom Action="StartService" Sequence="5902">Not Installed</Custom>
> <InstallFinalize Sequence="6500"/>
> </InstallExecuteSequence>
>
> <property ID = "ALLUSers">1</property>
>
> Here I used custom action type as "Commit"(commit custom actions executes
> after installfinalize), because in Vista the runtime will NOT be accessible
> to xyz.exe (the xyz.exe depends on the C runtime And iam installing the C
> runtime in the installer via merge module) until *after* the installer
> completes installation.
>
> With Custom action type "Deffered", custom action is failing while
> installation.
> With custom action type "Commit", installation is sucsseful, but service is
> not started.
> SOme times when I try manually, it is starting, some times not.
> I want per-machine installation
>
> The above code is working fine in XP, but failing in Vista
>
> Any Ideas???
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