Custom Action, MSI and Error 1720

[Rolf Cerff]

Hello,

I've created a Custom Action (VBScript) in an Visual Studio .NET 2003 Setup
Project. The Custom Action didn't work. I deleted the Setup-Project, because
it was only a test.

Now I have the problem, that when I start any MSI-based installations, at
the end the Setup confronts me with the following error message:

"Error 1720: There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A
script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your
support pesonnel or package vendor".

It seems, that all MSI-based installation tries to run these custom acction
(VBScript) and fail (roll back).

Thank you in Advance for any suggestion.

Regards
Rolf

[Michael Sanford [MVP]]

Hi,

Seems difficult to believe that running ANY msi would cause a custom action
in an old msi (that is not even installed) to run, but none the less, maybe
this will help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/msizap_exe.asp

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[Phil Wilson]

Installing an MSI and creating a log might say something about that 1720
error:

msiexec /i <path to the msi> /l*v somelogfile.log

If it is that same vbscript, a log should show the error in the script.

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Phil Wilson
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Definitive Guide to Windows Installer
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"Rolf Cerff" <rolf....@t-online.de> wrote in message
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[Rolf Cerff]

Hi,

thank you very much. Your suggestion gave me a helpful hint. Suggested by
the help of msizap, I found a hidden folder c:\config.msi. In it, I found a
file with some information of the related msi-package I created, with the
information about the custom action and even the code of the script behind
that action.

After deleting that file, all seems running fine again.

Nevertheless a very strange behaviour.

regards
Rolf

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