[wix-users] Wix setup can´t start custom action

[Stephens, Rich]

You can debug into the c# custom action.  Build your MSI project as debug and include this at the top of your custom action method:

#if DEBUG
            // Prompts for Visual Studio Debugger to attach
            Debugger.Launch();
#endif


Rich Stephens  |  Bottomline Technologies
770-576-3623  |  rstephens at bottomline.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of John Cooper
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:46 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Wix setup can´t start custom action

A 1603 is a fatal error exit.  This usually means you are throwing an exception.

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John Merryweather Cooper
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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Buchner
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 8:33 AM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Wix setup can´t start custom action

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Hello everyone,

I have one customer who faces the following issue on only one of his clients:

Our setup is executing a custom action before InstallFinalize which is defined like the following:
    <CustomAction
      Id="CreateNativeImages"
      BinaryKey="CustomActions.CA.dll"
      DllEntry="CreateNativeImages"
      Execute="deferred"
      Return="check" />

The setup fails while it tries to execute the custom action. In the MSI-Log we see the following:

MSI (s) (50:78) [11:08:54:135]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (50:78) [11:08:54:140]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 5500 (0x157C).
MSI (s) (50:1C) [11:08:54:196]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (50:1C) [11:08:54:198]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server.
SFXCA: Failed to create new CA process via RUNDLL32. Error code: 216 CustomAction CreateNativeImages returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox) Action ended 11:08:54: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
MSI (s) (50:54) [11:08:54:528]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0 MSI (s) (50:54) [11:08:54:528]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0

Currently we´re using WiX 3.10.1.2213. The operating system is Win7 x64 and the setup is compiled in x86.
We already created a test setup which only installs one file and tries to start a custom action which only calls a messagebox and we´re running into the same issue.

Has anyone an idea/suggestion what can cause this?
Thanks in advance!

Andreas Buchner


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