justjer
4th November 2004 23:36 UTC

NSIS silent hangs InstallShield install
I'm having a very strange issue with NSIS running with the /S (silent) switch. Running the NSIS installer in normal mode installs everything fine. However, if I use the /S switch an InstallShield Multilanguage installer hangs. If I use Task Manager to kill the NSIS setup.exe, the InstallShield installer will continue as normal.

I don't understand how this could occur only when using /S and not in normal mode.

Basically my NSIS installer is used to install a series of applications in silent mode. One of the installers that NSIS launches using ExecWait is based on InstallShield Multilanguage (the one that uses java).

NSIS manages to launch the InstallShield installer and it even runs for a bit, but eventually hangs. If I kill the NSIS installer when the InstallShield installer hangs, the InstallShield installer will continue.

Sorry for repeating myself so much. I just want to make sure it's clear what I'm experiencing.

This is all on top of Windows 2000 SP3.

kichik
5th November 2004 00:03 UTC

Can you debug the InstallShield installer and see exactly where it hangs?

justjer
5th November 2004 00:11 UTC

That's a good idea. I'll try that out and see what I can find. It'll be pretty tough though. This particular InstallShield installer spawns two additional setups.

JoeMcC00L
19th April 2006 17:35 UTC

I am experiencing the exact same problem (thank you for the redirection kichik) when running my NSIS installer normally, and running the self-extractor silently. Here is a description of my problem: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=1911762

By the way, did you have to send the /sms parameter to your IS installers? It doesn't seem to have an effect on mine.

Hope this helps,
Joe

Afrow UK
19th April 2006 17:43 UTC

You'll be lucky if the guy replies. Topic is over 2 years old.

-Stu