[wix-users] Event manifest registration issue happening with EventManifest WIX support

[Rob Mensching]

> Is it better to use the custom actions to perform the event registration / un-registration instead of EventManifest WIX support?

The ideal would be to help debug and improve the WiX custom actions to register/unregister EventManifest. It's very possible you've found a bug and until someone helps fix the underlying issue in the WiX Toolset, it will stay there. 

If you want to help, email the wix-devs mailing list and we can point you at the code to get started.


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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of manish duggal via wix-users
Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 11:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Event manifest registration issue happening with EventManifest WIX support

Hello Team

 

Any help on the below ask - I observed that my last two checks went for moderator approval (due to email size). Was not sure if folks got opportunity to see this email so resending after removing the images. 

 

Thx

Manish 

 

From: duggal_sunny at yahoo.com <duggal_sunny at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 10:59 AM
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Subject: RE: Event manifest registration issue happening with EventManifest WIX support

 

Hi Folks,

 

Any help/pointer on the below issue?

 

Appreciate the help. 

 

Thx

Manish 

 

From: duggal_sunny at yahoo.com <mailto:duggal_sunny at yahoo.com> <duggal_sunny at yahoo.com <mailto:duggal_sunny at yahoo.com> >
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 1:18 PM
To: 'WiX Toolset Users Mailing List' <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org <mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> >
Subject: Event manifest registration issue happening with EventManifest WIX support

 

Hello Team

 

We have an installer (msi) product  which is being serviced using agent updates (msp). MSP has updated binaries/scripts and some customer actions running as part of the process. As part of our installer, we have an event manifest which gets registered using "EventManifest" support available with WIX
(http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/util/eventmanifest.html)

 

What we are observing is that sometime the event manifest does not gets (re)registered rightfully and thus impact the event hierarchy listing as well as the events upload to those channels. 

 

Once the manifest registration is unsuccessful, customer either have to perform the wevutil um/im actions again or sometimes it is only fixed after complete product uninstall and reinstall. We have tried to perform repro but it is not all the time it is happening :(

 

I tried searching if this has been discussed earlier and I can see a thread which seems to be touching this :
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5713

 

Is it better to use the custom actions to perform the event registration / un-registration instead of EventManifest WIX support? Any other pointer / logs be able to help as why this issue happens sometimes?

 

Thx

Manish