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‎May 13, 2011 07:48 AM

install anywhere installation corrupted

My install anywhere installation is getting corrupted too frequently. I am getting the following error message.

Invocation of this Java Application has caused an InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)

the following is the stack trace.

isus.UpdateServiceException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character.
at isus.XMLWrapper.(Unknown Source)
at isus.ProfileManager.(Unknown Source)
at isus.AgentEx.profileSetValue(Unknown Source)
at isus.Agent.profileSetValue(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.ia.designer.update.UpdateFacade.a(DashoA10*..)
at InstallAnywhere.main(DashoA10*..)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA10*..)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)
... 12 more


If I uninstall and install InstallAnywhere again. The problem goes off but it reappears again if invoke it a few times.

Please advise.
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pv7721
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‎May 13, 2011 08:33 AM

I would say this might be a problem with your .iap_xml project. Would it be possible for you to post it?
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‎May 13, 2011 01:04 PM

I do not know if I can post it because that is company proprietery code.

Morever, when I invoke installanywhere, it should not call the project. shouldn't it. There can be more than one project and IA should not give preference to one project over another.

correct me if I am wrong.
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pv7721
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‎May 14, 2011 02:35 AM

Well, I'm not sure of how IA internally works, but from what I've seen, in all our installations, when the installation is complete, in the Uninstall folder you can find InstallScript.iap_xml which looks like the original project so maybe when IA starts it reconstructs the .iap_xml project and it might choke on special characters, even if they're in a comment somewhere.
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