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[vandy]

Hello,
We have and umbrella installer which has calls to several child installers. We use DoInstall to call the sub installer.
nvStatus = DoInstall(svScript, svArguments, WAIT);
The situation occuring is that the subinstaller completes but does not return to the main installer.. It hangs for some time after the timeout, we show the error. We do see that everything from the child installer is completed successfully.. So can't figure out why its hanging..

also used a custom function similar to LaunchAppandWait which we use in another place.. but get similar result ie the sub installer completes install but does not return to the main installer.

Anybody else seen that?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

thanks,
Vandy

[Taco Bell]

I have a several child installers in my setups, but sorry to say I've never encountered this issue. However, since a lot of them are 3rd party setups, I always use LaunchAppAndWait instead of DoInstall.

I would recommend you try calling this child setup from a blank setup project in order to simplify things and reduce the possible causes.

[vandy]

Thanks for the reply taco Bell. The places where we are using do Install are not third party setups but other installshield projects. (the call is to another setup.inx). Can we use LauchAppandWait there as well?

[Taco Bell]

I figured as such since that's what DoInstall is intended to support is other InstallShield setups.

However, LaunchAppAndWait should work equally well, so give it a try.