[wpkg-users] Firefox zombie state

[Falko Trojahn]

Bonjour Bruno,

"zombie state" means that there is a package assigned to a profile,
but the package does not exist. This is not the case here. 

For some reason the package is not assigned to your profile or host, 
so Wpkg tries to uninstall firefox - this is what I read in your log.

Here is a firefox package what I use here on Win 7 64 bit.

Best regards,
Falko

<package 
	id="firefox"
	name="Mozilla Firefox"
	revision="%version%"
	reboot="false"
	priority="10">
 
	<variable name="version" value="11.0" />
	<variable name="architecture" value="x86" />
	<variable name="locale" value="de" />

	<check type="logical" condition="or"> 
		<check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Mozilla Firefox
%version% (%architecture% %locale%)" />
		<check type="uninstall" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="Mozilla
Firefox .+" value="%version%" />
	</check> 
 
	<install cmd="taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe">
		<exit code="0" />
		<exit code="-1073741515" />
		<exit code="128" />
	</install>
 
	<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\packages\mozilla\Firefox Setup %version%.exe"
-ms' />
 
	<upgrade cmd="taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe">
		<exit code="0" />
		<exit code="128" />
		<exit code="-1073741515" />
	</upgrade>
 
	<upgrade cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\packages\mozilla\Firefox Setup %version%.exe"
-ms' />
 
	<remove cmd="taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe">
		<exit code="0" />
		<exit code="128" />
		<exit code="-1073741515" />
	</remove>
 
        <!-- for 32bit and 64bit System -->
	<remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C if exist "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla
Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla
Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" -ms' />
	<remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C if exist "%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Mozilla
Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" "%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Mozilla
Firefox\uninstall\helper.exe" -ms' />
 
</package>



On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:35:31 +0200, Bruno CHOQUET
<bruno.choquet at unicaen.fr> wrote:
> Bruno CHOQUET, responsable du service informatique de l'IUT d'Alençon.
> correspondant informatique du site universitaire d'Alençon.
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> Tel : 02.33.80.85.10
> 
> 
> Le 04/04/2012 11:41, Falko Trojahn a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:22:01 +0200, Bruno CHOQUET
>> <bruno.choquet at unicaen.fr>  wrote:
>>> With Windows 7 32bit sp1, I have zombie state with firefox 6.02, an
idea
>>> ? (no problem with Windows XP)
>>
>>> <variable name="architecture" value="x86" />
>> This is the problem - you define architecture to always be x86, so
>>
>>
>>> <check type="uninstall" condition="exists" path="Mozilla Firefox
>>> %version% (%architecture% %locale%)" />
>> perhaps the architecture variable is not correct for e.g. Win7 64.
> 
> NO same instal
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Host attribute 'architecture' with
value
>>> 'x86' matches expression 'x86'.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : XML node with special host attribute
>>> match found: architecture=x86
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Host attribute 'architecture' with
value
>>> 'x86' does not match expression 'x64'.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : No value of 'architecture' matched
'x64'.
>>> Skipping to next definition.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Could not match all attributes of XML
>>> node to current host. Skipping to next definition.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Got variable 'version' of value '6.0.2'
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Got variable 'architecture' of value
>> 'x86'
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Got variable 'locale' of value 'fr'
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:46, DEBUG   : Got variable 'ProgFiles' of value
>>> '%PROGRAMFILES%'
>>
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Uninstall entry 'Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2
>>> (x86 fr)' matches string 'Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 (x86 fr)'.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Uninstall entry for Mozilla Firefox
>>> %version% (%architecture% %locale%) was found: test successful.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Searching for previously executed
checks
>>> with attributes type='uninstall', condition='exists', path='Mozilla
>>> Firefox %version% (%architecture% %locale%)'
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Found 1 previously executed checks.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Replacing check results of previous
>>> evaluation
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Saving unsorted settings to
>>> 'C:\Windows\System32\wpkg.xml'.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Saving XML :
C:\Windows\System32\wpkg.xml
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, DEBUG   : Checking firefox602 zombie state.
>>> 2012-04-04 11:08:48, ERROR   : Could not process (remove) Mozilla
>>> Firefox.|Package still installed.
>> The line about zomie state is not the problem. You are removing
firefox,
>> but after removing the Uninstall entry is still present, so wpkg
>> correctly
>> states that the package is still installed.
> 
> No it always retry to uninstall
>>
>> HTH
>> Falko