john.straumann1.552489800662561E12 asked a question.
The wizard was interrupted???
Hi all:
I am working with a basic MSI project that was running fine, now for some reason when I run it I get a failure with a dialog box that says "The wizard was interrupted before johnzService1 could be completely installed. Your system has not been modified"
Does anyone know how I cna track down what error caused this completely useless dialog box to show up?
John.
Additional info: After searching the forums turned up nothing, I tried a Bing search and found a post on creating a log file when the installer runs. So I did that and got this:
MSI (c) (14:EC) [13:58:31:387]: Product: johnzService1Setup2 -- Configuration failed.
Wow, no kidding! Why are the error messages so useless?
setup.exe /v"/l*v C:\PathToLog\LogFile.log"
-- or --
msiexec.exe /I C:\PathToMsi\MsiPackage.msi /l*v C:\PathToLog\LogFile.log
Searching the log for 'return value 3' may be able to identify what action was running when the error occurred.
The functions are pasted below, and the Custom Action calls teh WriteEvent function.
unction WriteEvent(hMSI)
begin
WriteToLog( "C:\\Temp", "johnzServiceSetupLog.log", "Testing");
end;
function WriteToLog( sDirectory, sFile, sEntry )
NUMBER nvFileHandle;
NUMBER nCheck;
STRING sDate, sTime, sLine;
NUMBER nDate, nTime;
begin
OpenFileMode( FILE_MODE_APPEND );
if ( Is( FILE_EXISTS, sDirectory ^ sFile ) ) then
else
CreateFile (nvFileHandle, sDirectory, sFile);
endif;
if ( OpenFile( nvFileHandle, sDirectory, sFile ) < 0 ) then
else
GetSystemInfo (DATE, nDate, sDate );
GetSystemInfo (TIME, nTime, sTime);
sLine = sDate + " " + sTime + " " + sEntry;
WriteLine( nvFileHandle, sLine );
CloseFile( nvFileHandle );
endif;
end;
Since you are modifying the target machine, this should be a 'deferred custom action' maybe you have it set to immediate?
Generally you'll want to install in the 'Install exex sequence' and run after 'Cost Finalize'.