[wpkg-users] Exit code Java installer

[Holger Kröber]

Hi Frank,

i recommend to use virtual machines for software deployment tests, 
snapshots/checkpoints are so useful!

See my attached java package and also have a look here for the 
backgrounds of the problem:
https://harryjohnston.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/installing-32-bit-software-as-system-in-windows-7-x64/

Regards,
Holger

Am 10.12.2015 um 21:56 schrieb Frank Morawietz:
> Hello List,
>
> sorry for the delay. It's been a busy time plus I only occasionally can
> get direct access to the machine for experiments...
>
>>> is it a 64-Bit Windows (8) OS and do you deploy Java in the context of
>>> the SYSTEM account?
>> Exactly! But I have several machines with this constellation and only one of them fails.
> My fault, I was wrong. I verified and I noticed that it's the only one
> with this constellation. Consistent behaviour.
>
>
>> Also, you can create a log file:
>> jre-8u65-windows-i586.exe /L "C:\javalog.txt"
> This was easy, but couldn't explain why it failed. Messages like
>
> MSI (s) (5C:A4) [16:22:06:844]: MainEngineThread is returning 3
>
> are neither new nor helpful to me...
>
>
> Then I tried what looked like the easiest solution to me: PsExec
> But I didn't get past the known error value 3 or an installation hanging
> forever.
>
> It even doesn't work interactively:
>
> C:\> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c PsExec -s jre-8u65-windows-i586.exe
>   /s REBOOT=Suppress
>
> PsExec v1.98 - Execute processes remotely
> Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Mark Russinovich
> Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
>
> jre-8u65-windows-i586.exe exited on XXX with error code 3.
>
>
> Exactly the same with "PsExec -s -i" (additional -i flag), interactively
> as well as with WPKG.
>
> Running above command with "PsExec -d -s -i" (additional -d flag)
> resulted in an installation completely hanging. PsExec and MSIexec
> running in the background using no processor time and with no noticeable
> activity. This is the case interactively as well as with WPKG. In the
> latter case the WPKG service is hanging, too. Even for several days, if
> the PC is not rebooted...
>
>
>> Then have a look here:
>> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014761812
> I guess, this will be the next thing to try.
>
>> If you need further help, i can provide a package with the correct
>> mklink commands ;)
> Yes please Holger, I would be very grateful if you could provide this
> package. Either via PM or the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Frank

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