Administrative Install Hangs

[Steve]

Im trying to create an administrative image from one of my msi projects
created in installshield x but run into the following problem:

After creating a basic MSI which installs fine normaly and advertised but
hangs on the "please wait while initialising panel", while trying an
administrative install.

I tried running the administrative install as follows

msiexec /a <mymsifilename>

and also:

msiexec /a <mymsifilename> TARGETDIR=\\server\share

I get the same problem with both methods it just hangs and has to be ended
via the task manager. Ive tried on several machines but with no luck?

Ive also tried doing an admin install on some 3rd party msi files I have
which i didn't create but they all do the same??

Thanks for any help
Steve

[Steve]

I logged the install and this is the last few lines of the log file:


MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:390]: Doing action: SetupInitialization
Action start 15:42:26: SetupInitialization.
Info 2898.Tahoma8, Tahoma, 0
Info 2898.TahomaBold10, Tahoma, 0
Action 15:42:26: SetupInitialization. Dialog created
Action ended 15:42:26: SetupInitialization. Return value 1.
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:453]: Doing action: CostInitialize
Action start 15:42:26: CostInitialize.
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:453]: Machine policy value 'MaxPatchCacheSize' is
10
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:453]: Note: 1: 1336 2: 5 3: F:\
Action 15:43:15: CancelSetup. Dialog created
MSI (c) (B8:60) [15:43:15:500]: Note: 1: 2731 2: 0
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [16:09:02:171]: Note: 1: 1336 2: 80 3: G:\
MSI (c) (B8:60) [16:13:13:046]: RunEngine wait timed out
Installer is no longer responding.
MSI (c) (B8:60) [16:13:13:046]: Font created. Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font:
Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell Dlg

=== Verbose logging stopped: 27/10/2004 16:33:02 ===

[Simon Gadsby]

Steve, do you have Netware drives mapped?
Unmap them (can stay logged in) and CostInitialize seems to run ok.

I would dearly like to know why this is happening. It seems that Windows
Installer cannot query the free space on the Netware volumes. Not sure why
the problem only exhibits itself during an Admin Install though.

Simon.

Post by Steve
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:390]: Doing action: SetupInitialization
Action start 15:42:26: SetupInitialization.
Info 2898.Tahoma8, Tahoma, 0
Info 2898.TahomaBold10, Tahoma, 0
Action 15:42:26: SetupInitialization. Dialog created
Action ended 15:42:26: SetupInitialization. Return value 1.
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:453]: Doing action: CostInitialize
Action start 15:42:26: CostInitialize.
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:453]: Machine policy value 'MaxPatchCacheSize' is
10
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [15:42:26:453]: Note: 1: 1336 2: 5 3: F:\
Action 15:43:15: CancelSetup. Dialog created
MSI (c) (B8:60) [15:43:15:500]: Note: 1: 2731 2: 0
MSI (c) (B8:A4) [16:09:02:171]: Note: 1: 1336 2: 80 3: G:\
MSI (c) (B8:60) [16:13:13:046]: RunEngine wait timed out
Installer is no longer responding.
Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell Dlg
=== Verbose logging stopped: 27/10/2004 16:33:02 ===