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

[Sean Hall]

> 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.

No, if it reported it as per-user scope then that means
MsiGetProductInfoEx was able to find that product
for MSIINSTALLCONTEXT_USERUNMANAGED. If that's not what you expected, then
it seems the MSI APIs are broken on that machine or memory is getting
corrupted.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jacques Eloff via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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