Recent msi/package tests failures

[James Hawkins]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Adam Petaccia <adam at tpetaccia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 10:26 +0200, Paul Vriens wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking into the recent test failures for the msi/package tests on my
>> WinXP box.
>>
>> The reason for most of them was a stray MSITEST package that couldn't be removed
>> via the 'Add/Remove Programs' (had to remove stuff from the registry).
>>
>> Any one else seeing this? (Adam Petaccia's XP box has the same issue I guess).
>>
>
> I can provide any details you need about the XP box, the first thing I
> can think of is that the user running the tests is an administrator.
>

That's not why the tests are failing.  The install tests are timing
out, and if the winetest executable kills the child process that it
believes is 'hung', then you're killing the installer process midway
through an install and thus leaving the system in a broken state.

-- 
James Hawkins