[wix-users] Custom Action Issue

[Edwin Castro]

According to

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372835(v=vs.85).aspx

error code 2896 is

Executing action [2] failed.

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Edwin G. Castro




On Tue, May 29, 2018, 03:49 Ven H via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Upon searching further, I found the below link which says,from DoAction
> control event, session.Log does not work. If so, what is the alternative. I
> even tried session.Message, even that doesn't seem to work.
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3494101/wix-c-sharp-custom-action-logging-not-working/3503257
>
> Regards,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am building an MSI with a UI screen which captures a user name and
> > password to create a login in SQL. The DB server name is captured in one
> of
> > the previous screens and mapped to a property. When the user clicks on
> Next
> > button, a Custom Action is called. In this CA, the following things take
> > place.
> >
> > A SQL statement is called to create the login, either in local / remote
> > SQL server.
> > ServiceController.GetServices (found in System.ServiceProcess.dll) method
> > is called to get all the services from the local / remote SQL Server
> > machine. Since the ServiceController instance doesn't provide the path of
> > the executable behind the service, I am making some registry calls
> (either
> > to local / SQL Server machine) to get the exact instance of the SQL
> Server
> > service running on the machine and then call Stop and Start methods to
> > restart the service from the CA code. You may argue this is bad, but
> > unfortunately, this is a requirement.
> >
> > This CA is called on the Next button click, as mentioned earlier. There
> > are enough session.Log calls and I am trying to log each and every step.
> > This is built using .Net v4.0 (I tried with v4.6.1 also). I am using VS
> > 2017 and Windows 7 machine to build it.
> >
> > 1. Now, while testing by executing the MSI from within my local Windows 7
> > machine, I try to select a remote SQL machine (Win 2012 R2 Std server)
> and
> > it sucessfully adds the login and restarts the SQL service.
> >
> > 2. But when I try to execute the MSI from within the Windows 2012 R2 Std
> > server and select the same machine as the DB server, the CA fails.
> > Unfortunately, the log doesn't show any of my messages. However, there
> is a
> > line which says something like "Invoking remote custom action...". Looks
> > like the error number is 2896. I didn't get much from internet on this
> > error (except one slightly helpful link below. Things look fine as per
> that
> > link). However, while executing the MSI from the msiexec command in
> > PowerShell console as admin from the Windows 2012 machine, it runs
> > successfully. But here also, my log messages are not there in the logs.
> The
> > CA has no Impersonate attribute also.
> >
> > https://siderite.blogspot.com/2010/07/msi-custom-action-
> > error-2896-on-windows.html#at1688490813
> >
> > I am not sure what is wrong. Why the log messages are not at all getting
> > logged into the MSI log file? Why does scenario 1 work whereas 2 doesn't.
> >
> > Can anyone please help?
> >
>
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