iTunes

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hi James,

2008/2/17, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com>:
> On Feb 17, 2008 11:16 PM, Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> >
> > 2008/2/17, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com>:
> > > On Feb 17, 2008 11:07 PM, Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 2008/2/17, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > > On Feb 17, 2008 9:42 PM, Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Christopher,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Christopher Harvey wrote:
> > > > > > > What needs to get done for iTunes to work?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > v7.6 basically works if you set windows version to windows vista, and
> > > > > > find out why the installer fails to create the 'Bonjour service'
> > > > > > registry stuff properly.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I submitted 8 or so stub dll's to wine-patches that make iTunes v7.6
> > > > > > actually start after installation. It checks for the dll's and
> > > > > > silently fails if they don't exist.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I haven't done any further testing yet though, but it looks like it is
> > > > > > probably a small installer bug that prevents itunes v7.6 from
> > > > > > installing without first manually creating those registry keys.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The Bonjour service depends on the tcpip service.  As far as I know,
> > > > > we don't provide that service.  What registry keys are you referring
> > > > > to?
> > > > Keys like:
> > > > In HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Bonjour Service:
> > > > ImagePath="C:\...."
> > > > Start=0x00000002
> > > > Description="....."
> > > >
> > > > Those are not created during install. If I manually add them the
> > > > 'bonjour service' will report success on start, but actually crash
> > > > right after. However it is enough to satisfy the itunes installer.
> > > > Without those it will report failure without even attempting to start
> > > > the service. :-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > hmm according to the logs, the service is installed just fine.  You'd
> > > get an err otherwise.  The dependencies aren't listed, but since we
> > > don't have the tcpip service anyway, it won't make a difference
> > > (though that might be why it crashes when you get the service to
> > > start.)
> > There is a big difference. Without it it will abort installation
> > because the bonjour service fails to start. With it it will start but
> > immediately crash, however that happens after start so installation
> > happily continues. The effect is that installer will continue. I don't
> > see how it can be fine if it fails to create the appropiate registry
> > keys.
> >
>
> I'm not saying it's not.  I'm saying that the call to CreateService
> doesn't fail, or you'd get an err, like I said before.
>
>     service = CreateServiceW(hscm, name, disp, GENERIC_ALL, serv_type,
>                              start_type, err_control, file->TargetPath,
>                              load_order, NULL, NULL, serv_name, pass);
>     if (!service)
>     {
>         if (GetLastError() != ERROR_SERVICE_EXISTS)
>             ERR("Failed to create service %s: %d\n", debugstr_w(name),
> GetLastError());
>     }
>
> I'm not saying there's not a bug in CreateServiceW, but as it stands,
> we don't get a failure.
You can try for yourself at the following link:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/windows/bonjourforwindows.html

Or try iTunes v7.6 directly.

It could also be that it never calls CreateService for some reason,
I'm not 100% sure.

Cheers,
Maarten.