Yes I stumbled across this when I searched for the error code, and I immediately thought that it might not be an actual timeout but some kind of resource starvation. The machine that exposes this issue is pretty beefy and runs on two latest generation Xeon 6-core processors with 32 GB of RAM, so it is conceivable that I might even be hitting a Windows (or Windows Installer) bug here.
My next step is to put together a small tool that will manually try to open a RestartManager session outside of an installer to try and see if there is an issue with that in general (which I doubt). That might eventually turn into a custom action for my installer as a fallback for when the open session call fails so I can manually shut my process down. Not pretty, but it is critical that this works as reliably as possible... On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Phill Hogland <phogl...@rimage.com> wrote: > Did you see this post <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570355> ? > > I did a little searching (as a break from what I should be working on), > otherwise I have no expertise to share. From what I read ERROR_SEM_TIMEOUT > error message and the wording is a hold-over from floppy drive terminology > and is a restatement of a low level IO timeout error. One post talks about > file paths which are longer than 259, another talks about TCP timeout > issues, and another talks about Windows Server 2008 issues. Probably not > very helpful but it seems to bubble up from some resource starvation in the > kernel. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Restart-Manager-failed-to-open-session-tp7599199p7599215.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
