[wpkg-users] User GUI for WPKG-GP

[Nils Thiele]

Hello Falko,

That Error ussually only appears if the WPKG-GP service is not running 
in the background,
the client (or wpkgpipeclient) tries to write to the pipe (that the 
service should have created while its running) and it fails.
What version of wpkg-gp are we talking about, official or mine modification?

First check if the service is installed and running (services.msc), the 
display name of the service is "WPKG Control Service"
If it is installed but not started try to start it manually (right click 
-> Start) and check the wpkg-gp log to see what is reported in
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Wpkg-Gp\logs\", it it starts you could then try to run 
the pipeclient again.

If this is the problem (Service not starting) than its hard to determine 
what is causing the service from starting (if nothing appears in the 
log). I would first try to remove wpkg-gp completely (check also 
registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wpkg-Gp ), reboot the system and then try to 
install it again.

I had some problems with service not starting in the past that were 
caused by some official boot boost software by the hardware vendor of 
the machine (Lenovo and Rapid Boot in this case), the problem affected 
the vpn service not starting after every reboot, wpkg-gp was not 
installed on those system but i could imagine that it could have been 
affected by this as well


Hope this may help you.

Greetings,
Nils

Am 13.09.2016 um 18:40 schrieb Falko Trojahn:
> Hello Nils,
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> thanx for your quick answer.
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>> BUT....
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>> Implemeting the query function (for updates, installs, downgrades and
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>> removes) into wpkg-gp was way easier than i thought.
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>> Fixed a bug in wpkg-gp as well that i stumbled upon a few times
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>> allready in the past that always bugged me.
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>> I allready have a running version of the client to parse this new
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>> information but not sure yet how to display it since the windows
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>> notifications bubbles are quite limited. (formatting text) would have
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>> loved to color them depending on the task but this is not possible
>> and
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>> creating my own notifications in wxpython create all kinds of other
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>> problems.
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>> Anyway, expect a test release with the updated wpkg-gp and client
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>> later this week!
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> That's really great news!
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> While you are working on the gp client ... today I've stumbled upon
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> several clients which don't start the pipe client, neither
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> from local nor from remote via winexe.
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> The message is:
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> Error when generating pipe handle: Das System kann die angegebene Datei
> nicht finden.
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> We start it like this, on most client this works:
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> /usr/bin/winexe --interactive=0 -A /etc/backuppc/winpw //PCNAME '\''cmd
> /c "c:\Program Files\Wpkg-GP\WpkgPipeClient.exe" Execute'\'' <&-
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> Same message when starting locally from administrator cmd box, e.g.:
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> "c:\Program Files\Wpkg-GP\WpkgPipeClient.exe" Execute
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> Any idea, what's causing this and how we could go around that?
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> Thanx and greetings
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> Falko
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