I have a created msi and installed it but i am facing an issue during uninstall. I want to close the application forcefully before uninstall through custom action - wix
I've searched a lot but didn't find any solution.
I want a solution something like that.
<Property Id="QtExecCmdLine" Value='"[SystemFolder]taskkill.exe" /F /IM ConfigurationManager.exe /t'/>
<CustomAction Id="StopUserExe" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="ignore"/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action='StopUserExe' Before='RemoveFiles'></Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
Have you tried Taskkill?
Example:
<CustomAction Id="TaskKill" Execute="deferred" ExeCommand="taskkill /f /im notepad.exe" />
In your custom action you can enumerate processes (EnumProcesses()) and call TerminateProcess() for the needed one.
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Below is my code when i try to install my MSI it does everything but the lines below shows no sign of execution.
<Binary Id="unzipExeId" SourceFile="unzip.exe"/>
<Property Id="WixQuietExec64CmdLine" Value="[#$(var.InstallationLocation)\unzip.exe]"/>
<CustomAction Id="unzipAction" BinaryKey="unzipExeId" DllEntry="WixQuietExec64" Execute='deferred' Return ='asyncWait' Impersonate='no'/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action='unzipAction' Before='InstallFinalize'/>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
Did I miss anything.
But When i Try this code
<Binary Id="unzipExeId" SourceFile="unzip.exe"/>
<CustomAction Id="unzipAction" BinaryKey="unzipExeId" ExeCommand="START /B unzip.exe" Execute='deferred' Return ='asyncWait' Impersonate='no'/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action='unzipAction' Before='InstallFinalize'/>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
Everything Works Just Fine but the execution of the unzip.exe causes a pop up in the machine. The exe is not silently installed. But i need to silently execute the EXE.
Thanks in Advance
It could be related to DllEntry instead of using "WixQuietExec64" try to use "CAWixQuietExec64".
There is an open issue regarding this.
http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4802/
This is as a common use:
<CustomAction Id="CA_RunBatchScript"
BinaryKey="WixCA"
DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
Execute="deferred"
Return="check" />
I have an app that can log when given the correct flags at install time (/logLevel=debug on install gets passed to the app when the service starts). Our update process is a automated uninstall then install with a new MSI package. I know there is built in patch functionality with WiX, but this is our process.
Similarly with the logLevel parameter, I'd like to pass something to the effect of UPDATE="true" on the command line during uninstall. When this parameter is passed to the uninstaller it should not delete the log files. Currently we delete the files every time, but would like to retain the log files during an update. This is what I am trying to extend as of right now:
<?if $(var.BUILD_CONFIG) = "Debug" ?>
<?else?>
<CustomAction Id="Cleanup_logfile" Directory="TempTest"
ExeCommand="cmd /C "del %systemroot%\temp\hexis_hawkeye_g.log.*""
Execute="deferred" Return="ignore" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="Cleanup_logfile" Before="RemoveFiles" >
REMOVE="ALL"
</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<?endif?>
And I've been playing with code similar to something like the following but it doesn't seem to work:
<?if $(var.BUILD_CONFIG) = "Debug" ?>
<?else?>
<?if '[UPDATE]' = "true" ?>
<?else?>
<CustomAction Id="Cleanup_logfile" Directory="TempTest"
ExeCommand="cmd /C "del %systemroot%\temp\hexis_hawkeye_g.log.*""
Execute="deferred" Return="ignore" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="Cleanup_logfile" Before="RemoveFiles" >
REMOVE="ALL"
</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<?endif?>
<?endif?>
I'm not sure if I'm not initializing the UPDATE variable correctly, or if this really is some pre-processing that cannot be implemented in this fashion. I would think it would not work because these constructs are described on the preprocessor doc page, however, the /logLevel and various other parameters seem to work fine at run-time installation. I'm totally WiX illiterate and have been trying to read their documentation to no avail, any helpful links appreciated.
The problem as I see it: during a major upgrade when the application is uninstalled (and later on installing the new version) REMOVE=ALL is also true during uninstalling the application, so the files will be deleted.
You need to additionally check if the UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE is also set or not, which would only be true during an update.
Check this answer where the correct condition is given (and bookmark the question as I did, it is very very useful for all the possible states and conditions ;-)).
The correct condition should be the following in your case:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="Cleanup_logfile" Before="RemoveFiles" >
(NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE) AND (REMOVE="ALL")
</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
This is probably a bit hackish, but I was able to pass what I wanted by insinuating from the LOGLEVEL what action to take instead of passing an arbitrary variable:
msiexec.exe /x {blah-blah-guid-blah} INSTALLLEVEL=2
And for the configuration of my custom action:
<?if $(var.BUILD_CONFIG) = "Debug" ?>
<?else?>
<CustomAction Id="Cleanup_logfile" Directory="TempTest"
ExeCommand="cmd /C "if [INSTALLLEVEL] GEQ 2 del %systemroot%\temp\hexis_hawkeye_g.log.*""
Execute="deferred" Return="ignore" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="Cleanup_logfile" Before="RemoveFiles" >
REMOVE="ALL"
</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<?endif?>
I am trying to execute the custom action at the time of uninstall the installer in wix.It is working perfectly but it is showing the splash screen of cmd prompt at the time of custom action.Latter I tried with CAQuietExec but it is unable to uininstall the installer and giving error.
(CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: failed to get command line data).
The command that I am using is :
<Fragment>
<Property Id="ModifyOutlookRegInitSign_14" Value=""[SystemFolder]reg.exe" ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Security" /v InitSign /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f"/>
<CustomAction Id="ModifyOutlookRegInitSign_14" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
Execute="deferred" Return="check" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="ModifyOutlookRegInitSign_14" Before="InstallFinalize"></Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
</Fragment>
If it is an immediate custom action, the name of the property containing the command line as value must have an Id="QtExecCmdLine". For other types of custom actions read Quiet Execution Custom Action.
It seems to me that you are trying to update HKCU during the uninstall. This is probably because Windows Installer doesn't natively support the ability to do so.
But your proposed solution is lacking in several way. Mainly that it doesn't support rollback and doesn't support cleaning up other user profiles.
Did this registry entry had to be implemented in HKCU? Could it be implemented in HKLM?
I've created a custom action to kill a process silently like this:
<!-- WixQuietExecCmdLine specify the cmd to be executed -->
<Property Id="WixQuietExecCmdLine" Value='"[WindowsFolder]System32\TaskKill.exe" /F /T /IM MyApp.exe'/>
<!-- From WiX v3.10, use WixQuietExec -->
<CustomAction Id="MyAppTaskKill" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="WixQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="ignore"/>
<!-- trigger the custom action -->
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action='MyAppTaskKill' Before='InstallValidate'></Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
You have more info about the possible configuration combinations here:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/customactions/qtexec.html
Wrap your custom action around a Property with Id set to WixQuietExecCmd.
<Property Id="WixQuietExecCmdLine" Value="command line to run"/>
WiX Property Element
WiX Quiet Execution of Custom Action
I need to forcefully kill a process that is running in the background before attempting to delete any files, when running an Uninstall from an MSI created with Wix. The main application consist of a trayicon which reflects the status of the bg-process monitoring local windows services (made on C#, though this may not be so relevant going further).
I first tried the following:
<File Id='FooEXE' Name='Foo.exe' Source='..\Source\bin\Release\Foo.exe' Vital='yes' />
...
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="CloseTray" Before="InstallValidate" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
...
<CustomAction Id="CloseTray" ExeCommand="-exit" FileKey="FooEXE" Execute="immediate" Return="asyncWait" />
The tray icon is immediately closed after confirming application-close dialog, but the Foo.Exe task still appears on the taskmgr after the uninstall completed. Also,the following error message was given:
Thats why, then I tried this:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="Foo.TaskKill" Before="InstallValidate" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
...
<CustomAction Id="Foo.TaskKill" Impersonate="yes" Return="asyncWait" Directory="WinDir" ExeCommand="\System32\taskkill.exe /F /IM Foo.exe /T" />
After obtaining the same result, tried:
<Property Id="QtExecCmdLine" Value='"[WinDir]\System32\taskkill.exe" /F /IM Foo.exe'/>
...
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="MyProcess.TaskKill" Before="InstallValidate" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
...
<CustomAction Id="MyProcess.TaskKill" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="ignore"/>
Sample which I took from here: How to kill a process from WiX
lately when all else failed, I also tried this without any success:
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension">
...
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="WixCloseApplications" Before="InstallValidate" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>
...
<util:CloseApplication Id="CloseFoo" CloseMessage="yes" Description="Foo is still running!" ElevatedCloseMessage="yes" RebootPrompt="yes" Target="Foo.exe" />
This one gave me a different error:
I'm thinking on building a statue in honor to this process that just refuses to die!!! ... either that or think a problem on the application side exists, where I should add something like Application.Exit(); or Environment.Exit(0); at some line inside Program.cs.
Is there any other thing I could do at either Wix or my application to attempt closing it successfully at Uninstall?
Thanks!
Personally I think the best option for you to go with is the in-built CloseApplication method rather than your previous options.
The error you are getting for that (Error code 2762) is because you are trying to schedule the action in the immediate sequence but have the ElevatedCloseMessage="yes" set which triggers it as a deferred action. Either remove this attribute or schedule it in the deferred sequence.
I have a custom action
<CustomAction Id="myActionId" BinaryKey="myAction" DllEntry="MySimpleAction" Execute="immediate" Return="check" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="myActionId" After="InstallInitialize">CHECKBOXCOPYPROP=1</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
My custom action does backup and resolved database. I need to do rollback (drop database) when is canceled installation.
I did:
<CustomAction Id="myActionId" BinaryKey="myAction" DllEntry="MySimpleAction" Execute="immediate" Return="check" />
<CustomAction Id="myActionRollbackId" BinaryKey="myActionRollback" DllEntry="MySimpleAction" Execute="rollback" Return="check" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="myActionId" After="InstallInitialize">CHECKBOXCOPYPROP=1</Custom>
<Custom Action="myActionRollbackId" Before="myActionId">CHECKBOXCOPYPROP=1</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
But I was having an error.
If I do like this:
<CustomAction Id="myActionId" BinaryKey="myAction" DllEntry="MySimpleAction" Execute="immediate" Return="check" />
<CustomAction Id="myActionRollbackId" BinaryKey="myActionRollback" DllEntry="MySimpleAction" Execute="immediate" Return="check" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="myActionId" After="InstallInitialize">CHECKBOXCOPYPROP=1</Custom>
<Custom Action="myActionRollbackId" After="myActionId">CHECKBOXCOPYPROP=1</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
My custom action myActionRollbackId works.
How to run rolback when is canceled installation?
Someone can help me?
The custom action which runs on install and does something with the database should be deferred (Execute='deferred'). Its corresponding rollback action should be Execute='rollback'. When you schedule these custom actions, the rollback action should go first.
Also, make sure the conditions are set properly.
Installation is always done in transaction. when you launch an installer, it first creates something called installation script which is like a to do list of what it will do while installation.
When we set some custom action as Execute="immediate", it gets executed immediately but when we set our action as Execute="deferred", it gets added in the installation script, hence rollback becomes easy for this.
Now one thing to note here is that we get access to session in Execute="immediate" mode, but we cannot access session in Execute="deferred" mode.
If we try to access session it will give error, which in this case might be the reason for your error...