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Hi,
I have a little check in a custom action that is executed after the support files are extracted in an MSI based install shield script. It's set to synchronous, check exit code.
I call abort if I find a problem. I've also tried return ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE but that didn't alter how it worked.
When I run the installer normally, if I call abort, the installer will stop and I'll get a dialog saying that it failed. But if I run it like this -
setup.exe /S /v" /qn+ INSTALLDIR=c:\tmp\blahblah"
Now it still fails to install but I get a dialog saying "Setup completed successfully". This is misleading. Also ERRORLEVEL is zero.
How can I fix this?
Thanks.
Peter
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Figured it out after reading other posts on silent mode. My custom action was in the UI sequence so not getting executed. I switched it to the Exec sequence and it worked for silent install but ran too late for a UI install (needs to run before other dialogs). So now I've put it in both sequences! Won't do any harm to run it more than once.
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Figured it out after reading other posts on silent mode. My custom action was in the UI sequence so not getting executed. I switched it to the Exec sequence and it worked for silent install but ran too late for a UI install (needs to run before other dialogs). So now I've put it in both sequences! Won't do any harm to run it more than once.
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