[wpkg-users] Cannot install wpkg on W2k3 Terminal Server

[Jochum van der Heide]

Are you installing the WPKG Client in install mode on the TS (change user 
/install)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/8ef377c7-3815-4b1c-9cd5-b7950120c0c21033.mspx?mfr=true

-Jochum

Alan Au wrote the following on 28/03/2008 10:33:
> HI, Rainer,
> 
> I have tried  1.2-rc6 , but got the same error.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> Rainer Meier wrote:
>> Hi Tomoasz,
>>
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>> Probably, the installer needs some love on Windows 2003. I can't give 
>>> you any help right now, and what's worse, I don't have access to a 
>>> Windows 2003 installation I could experiment on.
>> Probably Alan could try an earlier version of WPKG GUI. Probably 1.2-rc6 
>> which is basically the same compiled on an older Visual Studio as you
>> said.
>>
>> In fact I was getting a similar message recently on a Windows Vista 
>> 32-bit machine. It did not state any "Runtime Error" but just said that 
>> the uninstall procedure failed "in an unusual way". Yes, it happened to 
>> me when trying to remove the package. After that also a 
>> re-install/repair failed with the same message. So I was unable to 
>> repair or uninstall it.
>>
>> I had to manually clean all WPKG entries from the registry to be able to 
>> re-install it.
>>
>>
>>> Do you have any errors in Event Log as it happens?
>> At least on my machine there have been no more information within the 
>> event log than displayed already within the dialog window. "This 
>> application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."
>>
>> Most probably it is somehow related to the way the WPKG GUI installer 
>> calls wpkginst.exe after copying the files to the local disk. Probably 
>> just the exit codes of wpkginst.exe are to b changed... who knows...
>>
>>
>> br,
>> Rainer
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