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[coolcut]

Hello all,
I've been working on an autobuild project where I build and compile my installer msi's and push them to a server on our network for remote testing. I use soon.exe to send a remote call to the remote machine to instigate a .cmd file that launches the installers. The problem is, when I do this remotely, the installers do a check then quit, without the installation happening. The weird tihng is, when I just double click the .cmd file on the remote machine, everything works fine. Does anyone know of a problem with launching installers using soon.exe?

I will post my installer logfile below...any help would be hugely appreciated...

=== Verbose logging started: 8/1/2006 11:22:54 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 3.01.4000.2435 Calling process: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe ===
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:715]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:715]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:715]: ******* RunEngine:
******* Product: CPSClientInstall.msi
******* Action:
******* CommandLine: **********
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:725]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:725]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:756]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:756]: Attempting to enable all disabled priveleges before calling Install on Server
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:826]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (s) (94:60) [11:22:54:846]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (s) (94:C8) [11:22:54:846]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (s) (94:C8) [11:22:54:846]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (s) (94:C8) [11:22:54:846]: ******* RunEngine:
******* Product: C:\Documents and Settings\ottobuild\CPSClientInstall.msi
******* Action:
******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (s) (94:C8) [11:22:54:846]: Note: 1: 2203 2: C:\Documents and Settings\ottobuild\CPSClientInstall.msi 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (94:C8) [11:22:54:856]: MainEngineThread is returning 2
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:866]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied. Counter after decrement: -1
MSI © (44:18) [11:22:54:866]: MainEngineThread is returning 2
=== Verbose logging stopped: 8/1/2006 11:22:54 ===

[Stefan Krueger]

[coolcut]

Thanks...Good call on that one. You are right. It was defaulting to Documents and Settings on the command line. I corrected that issue and still it fails....here is the contents of the logfile again...

any ideas?

=== Verbose logging started: 8/8/2006 13:31:00 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 3.01.4000.2435 Calling process: C:\WINNT\system32\msiexec.exe ===
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:158]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:158]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:158]: ******* RunEngine:
******* Product: C:/CPSServerInstall.msi
******* Action:
******* CommandLine: **********
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:158]: Client-side and UI is none or basic: Running entire install on the server.
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:158]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:308]: Cloaking enabled.
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:308]: Attempting to enable all disabled priveleges before calling Install on Server
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:428]: Incrementing counter to disable shutdown. Counter after increment: 0
MSI (s) (50:50) [13:31:00:569]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (s) (50:54) [13:31:00:569]: Resetting cached policy values
MSI (s) (50:54) [13:31:00:569]: Machine policy value 'Debug' is 0
MSI (s) (50:54) [13:31:00:569]: ******* RunEngine:
******* Product: C:/CPSServerInstall.msi
******* Action:
******* CommandLine: **********
MSI (s) (50:54) [13:31:00:579]: Machine policy value 'DisableUserInstalls' is 0
MSI (s) (50:54) [13:31:00:589]: Note: 1: 1314 2: /CPSServerInstall.msi
MSI (s) (50:54) [13:31:00:589]: MainEngineThread is returning 2
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:599]: Decrementing counter to disable shutdown. If counter >= 0, shutdown will be denied. Counter after decrement: -1
MSI © (24:30) [13:31:00:599]: MainEngineThread is returning 2
=== Verbose logging stopped: 8/8/2006 13:31:00 ===

[Stefan Krueger]

1314 = The specified path '[2]' is unavailable.
which makes sense since /CPSServerInstall.msi is not a valid full path.

BTW did you know that you can look up those error codes in MSi Help?