[wix-users] Bundle upgrade fails: Cannot read language ID

[Jacques Eloff]

Hi

I've been looking at a failure when a bundle tries to upgrade an MSI (where
the MSI have the language column set). All the MSIs are per-machine
installs.

>From the logs, it appears to fail in msiengine.cpp in the snippet below

// Ignore related product where we can't read the language.
                if (FAILED(hr))
                {
                    LogErrorId(hr,
MSG_FAILED_READ_RELATED_PACKAGE_LANGUAGE, wzProductCode,
sczInstalledLanguage, NULL);

                    hr = S_OK;
                    continue;
                }

>From the logs I observe some odd behavior.

The first package it detects, it reports as being a per-user scope, but I
suspect that's just because of how the fPerMachine flag was initialized.
All subsequent packages are then reporting failures, whether they have
language IDs in their upgrade tables or not.

[2EF0:29B8][2021-12-16T23:33:59]i103: Detected related package:
{9376EAFC-5ABE-4A09-B1D7-6F1DD4904105}, scope: PerUser, version:
48.3.31210.0, language: 0 operation: MajorUpgrade
[2EF0:29B8][2021-12-16T23:33:59]i108: Detected compatible package:
Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Android.Manifest_6.0.100.31.0.101_preview.9.16_x64.msi,
provider: Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Android,6.0.100,x64, installed:
{CA87338A-7E35-413F-87C2-4E5C6E88A62D}, version: 124.25.16443, chained:
{879C90F1-F656-4B45-AE49-87AF5A6BA28C}
[2EF0:29B8][2021-12-16T23:33:59]e152: Detected related package:
{CA87338A-7E35-413F-87C2-4E5C6E88A62D}, but failed to read language: ,
error: 0x8ff2a8

Here's the kicker though. 4 consecutive runs of the budle produced 4
different error codes, none of which are document under MsiGetProductInfoExW

0x8ff2a8
0x53f5f4
0x19f1e4
0xa2f24c

The end result is that a potential downgrade is not detected, the engine
executes an MSI that then triggers its launch condition blocker causing the
bundle to fail.

Anyone seen this before? I've not been able to reproduce this yet.

Thanks,
Jacques