Re: [HTCondor-users] Failed to build 8.0.0 using WiX with win7, MSVS2010, WiX 3.7

[Ziliang Guo <ziliang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A question, why do you need a customized installer in the first place?

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Kevin Buckley
<kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26 August 2013 14:06, Kevin Buckley
> <kevin.buckley.ecs.vuw.ac.nz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> As you point out, I was able to edit just two lines in the one XSL
>> file in the  etc/WiX\xml directory ...
>> ...
>> and have seen an MSI created.
>>
>> I do however get a large amount of warnings in the output that I
>> attach in case it is of use.
>
> I have now tried installing the MSI I created, both using an automated
> install where
> I set %ARGS% and invoke
>
> msiexec /qb /l* condor-install-log-2.txt /i condor-8xx-vuw-scs.msi %ARGS%
>
> and where I entered values via the GUI-install dialogs.
>
> Both methods of installtion see the same result.
>
> Following the post-install reboot, neither the condor_kbdd.exe Process
> nor the condor Service have started.
>
> If I try to start to start the Service from within the admin Services
> dialog, I get a
>
> Windows could not start the condor service in the Local Computer
> Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly
>
> however, If I simply run
>
> condor_master.exe by hand from a CMD.EXE, then I get a blank CMD.EXE
> on the desktop, the machine starts to report to the Pools's master and I see
> the following running Processes in TaskMgr.
>
> condor_kbdd
> condor_master.exe
> condor_procd
> condor_startd
>
> suggesting everything was OK with the install bar the install of the automated
> Service component and/or the setting of the
>
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>
> which is set to
>
> "C:\Condor\bin\condor_kbdd.exe"
>
> Indeed I am more surprised that the latter doesn't start than I am the service?
>
> And just to recap.
>
> An 8.0.0 vanilla MSI install works
>
> The MSI I am usihg above was built from the Condor tree within the ZIP
> file, not the
> tree that gets installed from the MSI, using WiX 3.7 and VS2008 Pro.
>
> Any clues/pointers/debug directions/ ?
>
> Kevin M. Buckley
>
> eScience Consultant
> School of Engineering and Computer Science
> Victoria University of Wellington
> New Zealand
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