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

Tue Dec 21 08:11:35 PST 2021

No. FireGiant ported it from their v3 branch (
https://github.com/firegiant/wix3).

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:35 PM Jacques Eloff via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Right, but does 3.14 have the fix? I can repro it and when I look at
>
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/blob/b496a8fdc2979c9a8e70edd3a47f2e98fc178e9e/src/burn/engine/msiengine.cpp#L494
> I still see the user managed context being checked before the machine
> context. Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong branch (there was a note on one
> of the wixtoolset pages that had a link to the wix3 repo)
>
> Thanks,
> Jacques
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 7:47 PM Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:
>
> > It was ported to v4.
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Jacques Eloff <repstosd at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Monday, 20 December, 2021 19:03
> > *To:* Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
> > *Cc:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Bundle upgrade fails: Cannot read language ID
> >
> >
> >
> > Question, I noticed the fix was ported to v3. We're using 3.14.0.5722
> > (because of arm64 support). Should I still see the issue or is it only
> > ported for the stable 3.x builds?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 2:01 PM Jacques Eloff <repstosd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Awesome, I managed to hack my machine to run as local system and I can
> > repro this now successfully it seems. Thank you Bob!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:01 PM Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nope, I’m not suggesting any of that. I was just commenting on Sean’s
> > comment, because of https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5479.
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Jacques Eloff <repstosd at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Monday, 20 December, 2021 14:41
> > *To:* WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > *Cc:* Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
> > *Subject:* Re: [wix-users] Bundle upgrade fails: Cannot read language ID
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks Sean, Bob
> >
> > In this case it was running under the update agent, so I'm guessing
> either
> > local SYSTEM or trusted installer since this is wuauserv. I know there's
> > restrictions on querying the language property. You're suggesting this is
> > due to the context under which the bundle is invoked?
> >
> > The docs do state that "These properties cannot be retrieved for product
> > instances that are installed under a per-user-unmanaged context for user
> > accounts other than current user account." So, even though this is a
> > per-machine MSI, because it ran under a local service, it's context
> becomes
> > user-unmanaged and then the API calls fail? Because once it fails, it
> fails
> > for every other MSI, even though only 1 MSI in the chain contains
> language
> > data in the bundle manifest.
> >
> > The corruption was my first thought too because of the random error
> codes,
> > though I'm seeing failures across 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2. I've set up
> > multiple repro VMs and when I install the baseline, the MSI either
> upgrades
> > or the bundle detects the downgrade  (when I install a newer version
> before
> > triggering the upgrade) and skips the MSI as expected. AllUsers is set
> to 1.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:13 AM Bob Arnson via wix-users <
> > wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> >
> > Or the bundle is running from a LocalSystem service, which is how MSI
> > parents a per-machine package.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> > Sean Hall via wix-users
> > Sent: Monday, 20 December, 2021 12:17
> > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > Cc: Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [wix-users] Bundle upgrade fails: Cannot read language ID
> >
> > > 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.m
> > > si,
> > > 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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