[wpkg-users] newbie Question

Fri Feb 1 11:34:46 CET 2013

Hello again,

Paul had suggest to me to change the exit code to any since if Firefox was not running the taskkill would fail with exitcode 128. Thus I changed the exit code but unfortunately this didn't do much good.

Firefox is most important to me so I skipped the rest (for now).
Unfortunately changing the exit code didn't do any good. Now I get following the log files:

2013-02-01 11:26:34, INFO    : Package 'Mozilla Firefox' (firefox): Already installed but version mismatch.|Installed revision: '9.0.1'|Available revision: '50'.|Preparing upgrade.
2013-02-01 11:26:34, INFO    : Installing 'Mozilla Firefox' (firefox)...
2013-02-01 11:26:34, INFO    : Command 'taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe' returned  exit code [128]. This exit code indicates success.
2013-02-01 11:26:34, INFO    : Command in installation of Mozilla Firefox returned exit code [128]. This exit code indicates success.
2013-02-01 11:26:57, ERROR   : Could not process (upgrade) Mozilla Firefox.|Failed checking after installation.

If I manually update Firefox, it first updates from 9.0.1 to version 12 and then to version 18.0.1 
Do I have to do this as well with WPKG? 

Sincerely,
Michael

--
Michael Mosel | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter 
Website 
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) 
Gießen Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK) 
Justus Liebig University Gießen 
Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
35394 Gießen
Germany

Tel.: +49.641.993 00 43
Tel.: +49.641.993 00 41 (GCSC Office)
Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul McGrath [mailto:J.P.McGrath at leeds.ac.uk]
> Sent: Freitag, 1. Februar 2013 10:25
> To: Michael Mosel
> Subject: RE: [wpkg-users] newbie Question
> 
> Hi Michael,
>   You need to error trap taskill firefox.exe, if firefox.exe is not running the
> taskkill will exit 128, so put <exit code="any" /> so if taskkill fails the package
> install does not fail.
> 
> 
> Adobe error:
> You are getting an error from your msi.  Run the full install syntax with /QB by
> hand in a DOS window and see what the error is
> 
> Don't know about VLC.
> Paul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users-
> bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Mosel
> Sent: 01 February 2013 09:07
> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] newbie Question
> 
> Hey Falko,
> 
> thanks a lot for your help. Using the report tool I managed to find a few
> problems which seem to exist for nearly every one of our PCs. Perhaps you
> guys can help me solve them since I am bit lost.
> 
> When looking in the log files I realized that installation of Adobe Reader
> 11.0.0 always fails:
> 2013-02-01 09:54:34, INFO    : Package 'Adobe Reader' (adobereader): Already
> installed but version mismatch.|Installed revision: '10.1.0'|Available revision:
> '11.0.00'.|Preparing upgrade.
> 2013-02-01 09:54:34, INFO    : Installing 'Adobe Reader' (adobereader)...
> 2013-02-01 09:55:05, ERROR   : Could not process (upgrade) package 'Adobe
> Reader' (adobereader):|Exit code returned non-successful value (1624) on
> command 'msiexec /qn /i
> "%SOFTWARE%\adobereader\AdbeRdr11000_de_DE.msi"
> TRANSFORMS="%SOFTWARE%\adobereader\AcroRead.mst"'.
> 
> Same goes for firefox 18.0.1:
> 2013-02-01 09:55:05, INFO    : Package 'Mozilla Firefox' (firefox): Already
> installed but version mismatch.|Installed revision: '9.0.1'|Available revision:
> '50'.|Preparing upgrade.
> 2013-02-01 09:55:05, INFO    : Installing 'Mozilla Firefox' (firefox)...
> 2013-02-01 09:55:08, INFO    : Command 'taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe' returned
> exit code [128]. This exit code indicates success.
> 2013-02-01 09:55:08, INFO    : Command in installation of Mozilla Firefox
> returned exit code [128]. This exit code indicates success.
> 2013-02-01 09:55:26, ERROR   : Could not process (upgrade) Mozilla
> Firefox.|Failed checking after installation.
> 
> Or vlc player:
> 2013-02-01 09:55:27, INFO    : Package 'VideoLAN Client' (vlc): Not installed
> (checks failed). Preparing installation.
> 2013-02-01 09:55:27, INFO    : Installing 'VideoLAN Client' (vlc)...
> 2013-02-01 09:55:27, ERROR   : Command '"%SOFTWARE%\vlc\vlc-%version%-
> win32.exe" /S /NCRC' ('"\\winfile.uni-
> giessen.de\ggk\Software_Synchronisation\vlc\vlc-1.1.7-win32.exe" /S
> /NCRC') was unsuccessful.|Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht
> finden.|
> 2013-02-01 09:55:27, ERROR   : Could not process (install) package 'VideoLAN
> Client' (vlc):|Exit code returned non-successful value (-1) on command
> '"%SOFTWARE%\vlc\vlc-%version%-win32.exe" /S /NCRC'.
> 
> The relevant questions for me seem to be:
> Adobe Reader - What is error code 1624 and how to get rid of it?
> 
> Firefox - Why there an exit code which indicates success but installation fails
> nevertheless?
> 
> Vlc - Why does the installation try to use vlc-1.1.7 although I have specified
> following in the package of vlc:
> 
> <variable name="version" value="2.0.5"/> ...
> <install cmd=""%SOFTWARE%\vlc\vlc-%version%-win32.exe"
> /S"/>
> 
> Any advice would be veeeery welcome. ;)
> 
> Yours,
> Michael
> --
> Michael Mosel | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Website International
> Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Gießen Graduate School for
> the Humanities (GGK) Justus Liebig University Gießen Alter Steinbacher Weg
> 38
> 35394 Gießen
> Germany
> 
> Tel.: +49.641.993 00 43
> Tel.: +49.641.993 00 41 (GCSC Office)
> Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Falko Trojahn [mailto:wpkg at trojahn.de]
> > Sent: Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013 14:53
> > To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> > Cc: Michael Mosel
> > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] newbie Question
> >
> > Hello Michael,
> >
> > you're welcome.
> >
> > Have a look at this:
> >
> > http://wpkg.org/User_contributed_software#wpkgCreateReport
> >
> > Using the status folder you can get a good overview about what is
> > installed and what should be removed/upgraded/installed at next run on
> each Client.
> >
> > Clicking at the columns of the html report you can select what you
> > like to see (usually not the "ok" = installed packages).
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Falko
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:39:56 +0000, Michael Mosel
> > <Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de> wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > my name is Michael Mosel and I just started my position as IT guy at
> > > the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at
> > > Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen. One my successors had started
> > > using WPKG but unfortunately has not documented anything. Since I
> > > have never
> > used
> > > WPKG myself, I am kind of lost right now.
> > > Although I googled quite a lot and read large parts of the
> > documentation,
> > > I have a very basic question to start with:
> > > What exactly is the "wpkg-status" folder for?
> > > It is filled with tons of xml files holding information about our
> > > PCs
> > and
> > > also install queries which do NOT match the ones I have defined in
> > > the package files which kind of puzzles me.
> > > Can anyone shed some light on this (I guess pretty basic) question?
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > > Michael Mosel
> > > --
> > > Michael Mosel | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Website International
> > > Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Gießen Graduate
> > > School for the Humanities (GGK) Justus Liebig University Gießen
> > > Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
> > > 35394 Gießen
> > > Germany
> > >
> > > Tel.: +49.641.993 00 43
> > > Tel.: +49.641.993 00 41 (GCSC Office)
> > > Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de
> > >
> > >
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> > Your's sincerely - Mit freundlichen Grüßen - Reçevez mes salutations
> > distinguées
> >
> > Falko Trojahn
> > http://www.trojahn.de
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