Silent Installs Just Hang

[H4nd0]

I just can't get silent installs to work (IA6.6, WinVista Enterprise):

myInstaller.exe /s

Causes two myInstaller.exe processes to spawn. One at 0% CPU. The other at 50% CPU (or 100% CPU on a single core).

Log file output (ie /l=c:\\temp\\ia.log) is as follows:

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<InstallAware>
  <SetupSplash>
    <StubSize>
    </StubSize>
    <StubData>
    </StubData>
    <GlobalLists>
    </GlobalLists>
    <SupportDir>
    </SupportDir>
    <ExtractArchive>
    </ExtractArchive>
    <ExtractResource>
    </ExtractResource>
    <ResourcePath>
    </ResourcePath>
    <Dialogs>
    </Dialogs>
  </SetupSplash>
  <RunScript>
    <Variables>
    </Variables>
    <CompileScript>
    </CompileScript>
    <BootStrap>
    </BootStrap>
    <myah>

Any ideas?

[H4nd0]

Any ideas how I can debug this?

[swarovski]

if non-slient mode, the setup run and terminates normally?

[H4nd0]

Yes it does - obviously you have to click next and so forth across the various forms.

[vistadb]

I have this exact same scenario but once the install fails any further attempts at installing (even non silent) end in the same crash. I have installed dozens of times on this machine over the past few weeks but today once it started with this error I have not gotten any of my setups to complete.

Anyone else seen this error?

I tried to generate a log and this is the output:

I n s t a l l A w a r e >
<S>
<S>
</S>
<S>
</S>
<G>
</G>
<S>
</S>
<E>
</E>
<E>
</E>
<R>
</R>
<D>
</D>
</S>
<R>
<V>
</V>
<C>
</C>
<B>
</B>
<m>


Seems like something hangs in there, but no idea what. The myah tag is never closed.

[CandiceJones]

Are you sure that's an InstallAware generated log file?

[rih]

We encounter a similar problem. The silent installer hangs, in case an older version is installed. The log is

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<InstallAware>
    <SupportDir>
    </SupportDir>
  <SetupSplash>
    <StubSize>
    </StubSize>
    <StubData>
    </StubData>
    <GlobalLists>
    </GlobalLists>
    <ExtractArchive>
    </ExtractArchive>
    <ResourcePath>
    </ResourcePath>
    <Dialogs>
    </Dialogs>
  </SetupSplash>
  <RunScript>
    <Variables>
    </Variables>
    <CompileScript>
    </CompileScript>
    <BootStrap>
    </BootStrap>
    <myah>


When that step "myah" is initialized? Is it before any custom script runs? Are there command line options to get more information for what is happening?

Thanks!