Thanks for the suggestions, Stephen. I dug a bit deeper, found the cause of the problem, and updated the original issue I mentioned: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4596/
*Dan Ports* Vice President of Technology, Intrigma Inc. Medical Staffing Optimization And Scheduling Software 349 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (212) 390-1040 | intrigma.com The information in this email is confidential and therefore privileged and/or protected under law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately at i...@intrigma.com and delete the original message and any attachments. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Tunney, Stephen <stephen.tun...@nuance.com > wrote: > Try running as local system from the command line with SysInternals PsExec > https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx > > I think it is psexec -S cmd.exe (or powershell depending on your needs). > > Then try running heat again and see what permissions issues you are > getting. Also try looking in other folders for tmp4869.tmp. Could be a > hardcoded path somewhere that doesn't evaluate %TEMP% properly. > > Stephen Tunney > Nuance Communications, Inc. > Solutions Architect, Imaging Division > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > stephen.tun...@nuance.com > 519-880-7463 Office > NUANCE.COM > The experience speaks for itself (tm) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Ports [mailto:d...@intrigma.com] > Sent: January-30-15 10:10 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Problems running heat under LocalSystem service > > Hello, > > I recently tried setting up a build agent that runs MSBuild to build a > simple WiX setup package. The build agent runs as a Windows service that > runs under the LocalSystem account. I consistently received the following > error: > > HarvestDirectory: > ..\..\Tools\WiX\Heat.exe dir ..\..\Build\WiX\Release -cg WebComponents > -dr INSTALLDIR -ke -scom -sreg -ag -sfrag -out > obj\Release\_WebComponents_dir.wxs > heat.exe : error HEAT0001: Could not find file > 'C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp4869.tmp'. > > When I tried running that command line in a normal interactive session, it > completed successfully. When I switched the build agent to run under a > domain user account rather than LocalSystem, the build completed > successfully, so it seems like there is some kind of problem running the > WiX tools under a LocalSystem service. > > This sounds very much like this issue: > http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4596/ > > Has anyone else run into this? > > Thanks, > Dan > > > *Dan Ports* > Vice President of Technology, Intrigma Inc. > Medical Staffing Optimization And Scheduling Software > 349 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 > (212) 390-1040 | intrigma.com > > The information in this email is confidential and therefore privileged > and/or protected under law. If you are not the intended recipient, please > notify us immediately at i...@intrigma.com and delete the original > message and any attachments. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is > your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, > sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is > your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought > leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a > look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
