[wix-users] What do Cabinet error codes mean?

Vladimir A Terentyev Vladimir.Terentyev at b1.ru
Mon Aug 1 02:11:35 PDT 2022


I gave my msi installer to a person and he had a problem during installation

The log says:

Начало действия 10:37:29: CheckForRuntimesWithWarning.
MSI (s) (18:80) [10:37:29:363]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI16B9.tmp, Entrypoint: CheckForRuntimesWithWarning
MSI (s) (18:34) [10:37:29:364]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (18:34) [10:37:29:391]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 5728 (0x1660).
MSI (s) (18:4C) [10:37:29:410]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (18:4C) [10:37:29:413]: Hello, I'm your 64bit Impersonated custom action server.
SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI16B9.tmp-\
SFXCA: Failed to extract to temporary directory. Cabinet error code 11.
CustomAction CheckForRuntimesWithWarning returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
Действие закончено 10:37:29: CheckForRuntimesWithWarning. Код возврата 3.


As I understood, msi didn`t manage to extract CA to Folder, so that installation failed.
I need to find out, why that could happen.
What  does "Cabinet error code 11" mean?  Is there any list of cabinet error codes with description?
Is there any way to find out, why this could happen to msi?



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