[wix-users] WiX fails to launch the installer when previous launch was from a removable drive

Tue May 30 16:12:52 PDT 2017

Yes I do believe that its the old package that gets invoked. How do I do
what you have mentioned in the comments? How can I  check if the original
source has not been already set and set it to where its running from right
now? I thought that's what the line  <Variable Name="OriginalLocation"
Type="string" Value="[WixBundleOriginalSource]" bal:Overridable="yes"/>
does. If that's not so, how can I do this?

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
wrote:

> The question I have is if it's your update bundle or your original bundle.
> Since the bundle upgrade will also invoke your old bundle to remove it's
> left over bits.
>
> And from the comments in code...
>
>             // If the original source has not been set already then set it
> where the bundle is
>             // running from right now. This value will be persisted and
> we'll use it when launched
>             // from the clean room or package cache since none of our
> packages will be relative to
>             // those locations.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Mayooran Macilamany
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:55 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] WiX fails to launch the installer when previous
> launch was from a removable drive
>
> I have a log entry mentioning the location where this file is to be
> written. Its referring to a drive that doesn't exist, which is E:\ drive.
> As I said, this failure is happening when I run the first installation
> from a removable disk. So when I try to update this removable disk
> installation with another installer that is inside the local disk, its
> crashing and the first mail I sent contains the event viewer log. So the
> bottomline is that this happens during an update, when the first
> installation was done from a removable disk. The last log entry mentions
> the location to write this result file. That means, it crashed since this
> location points to a non-existing location. But why does it point to a non
> existing location?
> Yes I ran the 1st installation from a removable disk, but the current
> update I am trying to do is from a local disk. Should this not point to
> this local disk as its log writing location? This is super confusing.
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > The BA should be defending against bad/missing/malformed variables and
> > not just blindly write a log file to a path in a variable.  You are
> > assuming that the path where the installer started was writable,
> > always available, and that you actually have permission to write to it.
> >
> > That being said, what do the logs in your temp folder show?  When is
> > the failure happening? What does the code near this code look like?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> > Behalf Of Mayooran Macilamany
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:10 AM
> > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > Subject: Re: [wix-users] WiX fails to launch the installer when
> > previous launch was from a removable drive
> >
> > Below is how I am writing to the file from my custom BA class.
> >
> >                string launchedFolder =
> > Path.GetDirectoryName(this.Engine.FormatString(this.
> > Engine.StringVariables["OriginalLocation"]));
> >                File.WriteAllText(launchedFolder + "\\exec_result.txt",
> > "fail=Update failed: " + "Product Already Installed.");
> >
> > Above variable original location is set in the Bundle.wxs file of the
> > boot strapper as shown below.
> >
> >               <Variable Name="OriginalLocation" Type="string"
> > Value="[WixBundleOriginalSource]" bal:Overridable="yes"/>
> >
> > I tried attaching the device again, before running the install from
> > the local drive. Still getting the same error. Any clues?
> >
> > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Tyler Gustafson
> > <tgustafson at solacom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > How are you writing to the file in the current directory? What
> > > happens if you attach the removable disk before running the install
> > > from the local drive?
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf
> > > of Mayooran Macilamany <mayooran99 at gmail.com>
> > > Sent: May 30, 2017 9:36:42 AM
> > > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> > > Subject: [wix-users] WiX fails to launch the installer when previous
> > > launch was from a removable drive
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Say I install my managed bootstrapper burn installer from a
> > > removable
> > disk.
> > > This installs fine. But the next time I try to install/update this
> > > from a local drive, the update/install process fails. The installer
> > > UI crashes when I double click on it to launch the installer. Why is
> > > this
> > happening?
> > > If the previous installation was from a local disk, then
> > > update/install works fine. Why is this happening? Below is what I
> > > have found in the event logs.
> > >
> > > Please note that I am writing to a file about the installation
> > > status, from the directory in which the installer is launched from.
> > > Could this be causing the issue? But why would this be an issue
> > > since now the launched directory is the local drive and its only the
> > > previous version installation that happened from an external disk.
> > >
> > > Any help would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Application: BasePlatformSetup.exe
> > > Framework Version: v4.0.30319
> > > Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
> > > Exception Info: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException
> > >    at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32, System.String)
> > >    at System.IO.FileStream.Init(System.String, System.IO.FileMode,
> > > System.IO.FileAccess, Int32, Boolean, System.IO.FileShare, Int32,
> > > System.IO.FileOptions, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, System.String, Boolean,
> > > Boolean, Boolean)
> > >    at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(System.String, System.IO.FileMode,
> > > System.IO.FileAccess, System.IO.FileShare, Int32,
> > > System.IO.FileOptions, System.String, Boolean, Boolean, Boolean)
> > >    at System.IO.StreamWriter.CreateFile(System.String, Boolean,
> Boolean)
> > >    at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor(System.String, Boolean,
> > > System.Text.Encoding, Int32, Boolean)
> > >    at System.IO.File.InternalWriteAllText(System.String,
> > > System.String, System.Text.Encoding, Boolean)
> > >    at System.IO.File.WriteAllText(System.String, System.String)
> > >    at CustomBA.CustomBA.Run()
> > >    at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(System.Object)
> > >    at
> > > System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.
> > > ExecutionContext,
> > > System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
> > >    at
> > > System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionCont
> > > ex t, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
> > >    at
> > > System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionCont
> > > ex t, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
> > >    at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
> > >
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