Silent Install - Incomplete Releases

stonkersDecember 18, 2007 at 2:13 PM#

Not working...

When the folder create fails, the psexec process doesn't hang. I'm guessing that these stubs aren't dumping. Should I put some sort of code in my nsi file for debug purposes to force a dump?

kichikDecember 18, 2007 at 7:54 PM#

Does it at least crash or does it carry on?

stonkersDecember 18, 2007 at 9:06 PM#

It carry's on just like it did before the stubs were changed. Gives the can't create folder error in the log file.

kichikDecember 19, 2007 at 5:01 PM#

What's the exact error it prints to the log?

stonkersDecember 20, 2007 at 1:29 PM#

I believe as it creates the folder, it says (err=5), and thereafter cannot create files in that folder that doesn't exist. If this isn't the case, I'll cut, paste, and post when it happens again.

kichikDecember 20, 2007 at 7:31 PM#

Are you sure the executed installer was created with the stubs I gave you? I see no reason it'd ignore a call to DebugBreak(), even when executed with psexec. Open the installer with notepad or some text editor and look for DebugBreak.

stonkersJanuary 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM#

I believe we've fixed it (no problems for 2 weeks). It looks like IIS was sometimes blocking the installer from deleting folders. So instead of doing an "IISRESET" after the installer is done, we now do an "IISRESET /STOP" in .onInit and then an "IISRESET /START" after the installer is done.

BTW - I checked it out and the move of those stub files was failing in NAnt. Probably a typo in folder name on my part, but we won't need it this time. I'll look deeper if we need this again though.

Thanks Kichik!!!

kichikJanuary 7, 2008 at 8:38 PM#

A happy ending at last 🙂