[wix-users] Restart from MBA

[Parkes, Kevin]

Thanks for your suggestions Farrukh. Unfortunately, I'm still not really getting anywhere.

If I could summarize / restate my problem(s), perhaps someone else could shed some light...

Original problem: Intermittently, when reinstalling after an uninstall (and without any restart), install fails.
The log file shows 
   Apply complete, result: 0x8007015e...
Error look up gives 0x8007015e = "No action was taken as a system reboot is required."

The log file also shows a 3rd party MSI package as "state: Present", from which I am guessing that the reboot is required to complete the uninstall of the 3rd party MSI. (Unfortunately, the tester hasn't provided me with the log files from the uninstall and I haven't reproduced the problem myself yet.) 

So how come WiX/Burn can detect that a reboot is required when reinstalling, but either didn't detect that or didn't trigger a restart, on the preceding uninstall? Is there something I should be doing in my MBA to handle/detect/trigger a restart?


Secondary problem: in trying to investigate the above (and restart behaviour in general), I trigger an ExecuteFilesInUse in which I set:
  e.Result = Result.Restart
However, that has no effect, WiX appears to ignore it. e.Restart is never ApplyRestart.RestartRequired in either ExecutePackageComplete or ApplyComplete



-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Farrukh Waheed
Sent: 10 June 2016 17:41
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Restart from MBA

Simply, e.Restart==ApplyRestart.RestartRequired would only be true if Burn detect the need to restart As the log file shows, it doesn't need a restart, so e.Restart==ApplyRestart.RestartRequired would be false here.
Experimentally, you can schedule a reboot from your msi i.e:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
        <ScheduleReboot After="InstallFinalize"/> </InstallExecuteSequence>

and you may  e.Restart==ApplyRestart.RestartRequired as true in ApplyComplete at least...


On 10 June 2016 at 04:10, Parkes, Kevin <Kevin.Parkes at wacom.eu> wrote:

> e.Restart==ApplyRestart.RestartRequired
>

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