[wpkg-users] problem with "interactive" installers

[James Cort]

Aleks Bromfield wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> 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.
> - The Cygwin installer refuses to pop up any kind of dialog box, and thus hangs.
> 
> 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.)
> 

Probably a silly question, but have you tried turning off UAC on the
affected systems?

I noticed a very similar issue when using Vista a few months ago - with
UAC turned on, silent installers tended to fail silently.


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James Cort

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