[wix-users] Doing action: ADMIN vs. Doing action: INSTALL

Tue Apr 12 15:01:06 PDT 2016

Thanks for the clarification. As I’m not a WiX/MSI expert I still do not understand what can lead to an admin installation on some systems and a normal one on most other systems? All customers get the same bootstrap exe containing containing the MSI. They just double click the bootstrap installer.

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Yves

> On 12 Apr 2016, at 23:34 , Phil Wilson <phil.wilson at mvps.org> wrote:
> 
> An Admin install isn't really an "install".It basically just unpacks all the
> files into the target location, and doesn't register the product, install
> services, or run custom actions and so on.  When people build patches from
> two products with (say) MsiMsp it requires two administrative images. That's
> the same "admin" as an admin install produces. It's nothing to do with
> administrator privilege either. 
> 
> Phil W 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
> Yves Langisch
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:36 AM
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-users] Doing action: ADMIN vs. Doing action: INSTALL
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've an MSI installer created with the WiX Toolset containing a custom
> action to install a device driver. For most customers that all works
> perfectly. There are a few  customers which have issues with the installer.
> The installer seems to run fine but at the end the custom action did not run
> and thus the device driver is missing.
> 
> Finally I've got a logfile from one customer with verbose logging enabled
> (/l*vx). I've compare the logfile to a successful installation. There are
> some main differences but I'm unable to explain their reason:
> 
> A successful installation looks like (filtered to Doing action and UI
> Sequence)
> 
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:064]: Doing action: INSTALL 
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:064]: UI Sequence table 'InstallUISequence' is
> present and populated.
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:064]: Doing action: FindRelatedProducts 
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:064]: Doing action: ValidateProductID MSI (c)
> (E4:84) [19:51:08:064]: Doing action: CostInitialize 
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:064]: Doing action: FileCost 
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:080]: Doing action: CostFinalize 
> MSI (c) (E4:84) [19:51:08:080]: Doing action: MigrateFeatureStates MSI (c)
> (E4:84) [19:51:08:080]: Doing action: ExecuteAction 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: INSTALL 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: FindRelatedProducts 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: ValidateProductID MSI (s)
> (A8:DC) [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: CostInitialize 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: FileCost 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: CostFinalize MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: MigrateFeatureStates MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:14:814]: Doing action: InstallValidate MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:14:861]: Doing action: RemoveExistingProducts MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:14:861]: Doing action: InstallInitialize MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:14:877]: Doing action: ProcessComponents MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:908]: Doing action: MsiUnpublishAssemblies MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:908]: Doing action: UnpublishFeatures MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:908]: Doing action: RemoveRegistryValues MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:908]: Doing action: UnregisterClassInfo MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:924]: Doing action: UnregisterExtensionInfo MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:924]: Doing action: UnregisterProgIdInfo MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:924]: Doing action: RemoveShortcuts MSI (s) (A8:DC)
> [19:51:15:924]: Doing action: RemoveFiles MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:15:924]:
> Doing action: NetFxScheduleNativeImage MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:473]: Doing
> action: InstallFiles 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:473]: Doing action: CreateShortcuts 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:487]: Doing action: RegisterClassInfo 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:487]: Doing action: RegisterExtensionInfo 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:487]: Doing action: RegisterProgIdInfo 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:487]: Doing action: WriteRegistryValues 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:487]: Doing action: SetCBFS_CA_Values
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:487]: Doing action: InstallCBFS_CA MSI (s)
> (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: InstallServices 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: RegisterUser 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: RegisterProduct 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: MsiPublishAssemblies MSI (s)
> (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: NetFxExecuteNativeImageCommitUninstall
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action:
> NetFxExecuteNativeImageCommitInstall
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: PublishFeatures 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: PublishProduct 
> MSI (s) (A8:DC) [19:51:26:502]: Doing action: InstallFinalize
> 
> vs. an unsuccessful
> 
> MSI (c) (C4:AC) [17:27:30:906]: Doing action: ADMIN 
> MSI (c) (C4:AC) [17:27:30:906]: UI Sequence table 'AdminUISequence' is
> present and populated.
> MSI (c) (C4:AC) [17:27:30:906]: Doing action: CostInitialize 
> MSI (c) (C4:AC) [17:27:30:922]: Doing action: FileCost MSI (c) (C4:AC)
> [17:27:30:922]: Doing action: CostFinalize MSI (c) (C4:AC) [17:27:31:250]:
> Doing action: ExecuteAction MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:31:797]: Doing action:
> ADMIN MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:31:797]: Doing action: CostInitialize MSI (s)
> (A0:C0) [17:27:31:797]: Doing action: FileCost MSI (s) (A0:C0)
> [17:27:31:797]: Doing action: CostFinalize MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:31:812]:
> Doing action: InstallValidate MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:31:843]: Doing action:
> InstallInitialize MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:31:875]: Doing action:
> InstallAdminPackage MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:32:312]: Doing action:
> InstallFiles MSI (s) (A0:C0) [17:27:32:328]: Doing action: InstallFinalize
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> -
> Yves
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