[wpkg-users] problem with "interactive" installers

[Falko Trojahn]

Just answering myself ... forgot something.

Falko Trojahn --> 25.09.2008 07:54:
> Hi Aleks,
> 
>> My organization has been using WPKG for the past month or two, and
>> it's been great -- much better than repackaging! :) In the past few
>> days, however, I've noticed a few weird issues with WPKG when it's run
>> as a scheduled task. Specifically:
>>
>> - The Firefox installer hangs.
> for Firefox you must make sure that no other firefox instance is
> running, so especially when running as scheduled task and a user might
> be using Firefox at that moment: perhaps you have to kill firefox by
> using taskkill or pskill (see http://wpkg.org/Firefox)
> 
>> - The Cygwin installer refuses to pop up any kind of dialog box, and thus hangs.
> You could check the "show gui" option in Wpkginst when using Wpkg Client.
You didn't specify how you are using "scheduled task". We would install
wpkg client, check the "stop when done" button in Wpkginst, and only do
"net start wpkgservice" in scheduled task.

> 
>> We had the same issue when trying out the WPKG client. The only way
>> we've been able to avoid this problem is by invoking WPKG
>> interactively, often by using psexec.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced similar problems?
>>
>> (This is occurring on Vista.)
> No, but I could try this later this week on Vista.
> 
> Best regards,
> Falko

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