Recent msi/package tests failures

[James Hawkins]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> So were back to fixing the timeouts.
>
> I double checked again and can't see any logging enabled (checked the
> registry keys your provided).
>

Of course; there are tons of tests.  The timeout needs to be extended,
at least for install.c.

-- 
James Hawkins