I have an InstallScript MSI project that deploy also some merge modules. The entire setup is scripted and I just changed the script to allow also a silent setup. I have 5 features and from the log I can see that are all installed, in fact, each feature creates a log file as a "test" to be sure it has been installed.
But if I open the log generated by the MSI I found this at the end: [CODE]"[ResponseResult] ResultCode=-3 Action ended 10:33:23: CostFinalize. Return value 1. MSI (c) (C8:94) [10:33:23:013]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ISAlias MSI (c) (C8:94) [10:33:23:013]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: ISAlias 4: SELECT * FROM ISAlias InstallShield 10:33:23: Installation aborts, ready to shut down. InstallShield 10:33:23: Invoking __ResetMsiObject... === Verbose logging stopped: 1-4-2014 10:33:23 ==="[/CODE]
And acutally the product is installed because if I run the Setup again it tells me if I want to remove it, but if I open Add/Remove programs I can't find it. If I run the Setup normal mode everything works fine.
How can I understand why the operation aborted? The log doesn't have any error at all ...
So, this is something I found quite annoying because in the log of InstallShield I didn't see anything related to this. It may return a simple error code like -3, which gives you the reason why the setup crashed.
In my case I was getting a simple Error = -3, which means that my Setup was searching for an .ISS file in order to run silently properly.
Actually it took a while to me to understand this issue, but I found a nice translation table that I want to share here:
-0 Success -1 General error -2 Invalid mode -3 Required data not found in the Setup.iss file -4 Not enough memory available -5 File does not exist -6 Cannot write to the response file -7 Unable to write to the log file -8 Invalid path to the InstallShield Silent response file -9 Not a valid list type (string or number) -10 Data type is invalid -11 Unknown error during setup -12 Dialogs are out of order -51 Cannot create the specified folder -52 Cannot access the specified file or folder -53 Invalid option selected
