One option is to set the flag on the sqlexpress install to ignore the pending restart rule check (/SkipRules=RebootRequiredCheck).
It might worth adding a feature request to get a property added to burn to indicate pending restarts. Neil Neil Sleightholm [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On 14 Jun 2012, at 09:07, jean claude klodjan wrote: Hello we have built a bootstrapper that installs different prerequisites, including "SQL Server 2008 R2 Express". This component can only install if there is no pending change on the machine, i.e. if the machine has been rebooted since the last time a setup has written data in the registry value "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations" For every other component in our bootstrapper chain, we reboot the machine if the returned code indicate that it is required ( = if there are pending changes). -> But if there are pending changes BEFORE the user starts this bootstrapper, we have no way to detect it, and the installation of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express crashes. How should we proceed ? Thank you very much in advance. (note : we have tried to solve this problem placing a "fake" component before SQL Server 2008 R2 Express that would require to reboot the machine if the registry value PendingFileRenameOperations was not empty, but on some machine (like VMs) this value is never empty, and it cause the bootstrapper to reboot the machine forever) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
