Let me echo John here, I am trying to help us and also help the community. We are worse off, too, than some, because the machines I deal with are mostly-disconnected remotes which receive the vast majority of their tech support via RDP if at all. It seems that most of the hypotheses around are wrong, unless we're just unlucky.
Sascha: I have yet to try your stuff out. I know already now that you are dealing with MSIs in a bundle (correct?), which we don't do - we use bundles to use Windows Update files (MSUs) only, at present. All the rest of our stuff is just MSI. (Or rarely - testing only, I think, MSP.) So there's a difference right off. I wonder (list owners willing) if it is time to play "what do we know?" Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -----Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: September-08-14 2:41 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container I am sure that Microsoft will ultimately have to make a fix, but I have a lot of installers out in the wild, and I feel very exposed when none of my testers can replicate. I'm much more interested in understanding the mechanism of failure--especially since I can't currently replicate. Also, it is very hard to justify to management invoking our support agreement when the issue does not reproduce with any of our product installers. Much easier if I can replicate. I'm basically trying to figure out what is different in our installers and deployment scenarios such that we don't see this issue. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -----Original Message----- From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 1:29 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not create the default key container The issue is very easily reproducible for me when doing an upgrade from one bundle to another one. I emailed Keith links to two installers that have 100% repro for me when upgrading from the one to the other while having KB2918614 installed. Repros on any machine. I'm happy to share some logs but given that KB2918614 directly determines whether the upgrade fails or works I don't know if there is anything that can be done to fix this from our end, it seems to me like Microsoft needs to reissue the hotfix or have another hotfix that fixes the broken one. // Sascha On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:44 AM, John Cooper <jocoo...@jackhenry.com> wrote: > I haven't been able to reproduce this using signed or unsigned MSIs > deploying in an "Open" or "Closed" Environment. > > I would be very happy to take a look at some verbose logs of the failures. > > -- > John Merryweather Cooper > Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | > Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS > 66214 | Ext: 431050 | jocoo...@jackhenry.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] > Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 10:40 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not > create the default key container > > I've now tried a "small update". I've never fully understood why you’d > use these, but my co-workers wanted to use MSPs for some of our > updating, so I built a front end for making those and hence small > updates. That all to say that I may be doing something unusual or > "wrong" with them. However, that disclaimer aside, I cannot reproduce any > trouble with that either. > > > Keith Douglas > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A > 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 > Facsimile > | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du > | Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] > Sent: September-08-14 8:41 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not > create the default key container > > Ah! There seems to be some confusion on this point. I will see. > > > Keith Douglas > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A > 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 > Facsimile > | Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du > | Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolás Alvarez [mailto:nicolas.alva...@gmail.com] > Sent: September-06-14 1:27 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SECREPAIR: CryptAcquireContext: Could not > create the default key container > > 2014-09-05 17:15 GMT-03:00 <keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca>: > > I've gotten hold of a Windows 7 x64 VM and tried installing, > uninstalling, repairing a few dinky products we have built installers > for over the last while. Even added a new one with a large (100 > megabytes > uncompressed) payload. Tried with and without UAC for all. No troubles > at all with the trouble KB installed. User was a domain account, for > what that is worth. > > Well, previous messages indicate the problem is with minor updates. > Did you try updates, or only install/uninstall/repair? > > -- > Nicolás > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. 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