Recent msi/package tests failures

[Paul Vriens]

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).

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Cheers,

Paul.