I recently tried to change the display name of my windows service, but apparantly I messed up. An old version fails to uninstall completely and I cannot install a new version of the windows service. This is the error generated from running installutil /i myService:
An exception occurred during the uninstallation of the System.Diagnostics.EventLogInstaller installer.
System.InvalidOperationException: The event log source '7 Ac Service' cannot be deleted, because it's equal to the log name.
An exception occurred while uninstalling. This exception will be ignored and the uninstall will continue. However, the application might not be fully uninstalled after the uninstall is complete.
So the event log source is equal to the log name. What does that mean and how do I fix it?
I found out myself. This post helped. So there are basically 3 places in the registry in the same name as the windows service. So I tried first to write a console application to remove the eventlog:
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.Delete("7 Ac Service");
It took care of 2 of them. I removed the last one manually using regedit. Then my windows service installed without problems.
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I am struggling with very strange situation with wix installer.
I have custom BA app which installs windows service and removes it on uninstall.
On Win XP everything is working perfectly but on Win 10 service is not stopped and not removed though uninstallation processed successfully.
In log files I cannot see any errors related to this.
Any ideas?
This is service install configuration:
<ServiceInstall
Id="MyServiceInstaller"
Type="ownProcess"
Name="MyService"
DisplayName="My Service"
Description="My Service"
Start="auto"
Account="[SERVICEACCOUNT]"
Password="[SERVICEPASSWORD]"
ErrorControl="normal" />
<ServiceControl Id="StartMyService"
Name="MyService"
Start="install"
Wait="no" />
<ServiceControl Id="StopMyService"
Name="MyService"
Stop="both"
Remove="uninstall"
Wait="yes" />
Round 2:
I jumped the gun here. As Chris says, we do need to see the log. I assumed the uninstall was hanging, which it does not seem to be at all.
ARP: I suppose you should quickly check if there are two product entries in Add / Remove Programs first of all? (don't think that is the problem either - failed major upgrade).
SharedDllRefCount: Is the SharedDllRefCount attribute set to yes for the service component? Please post the whole component markup, with all attributes specified - conditions and all. If the component was set permanent, that would explain things, but then the uninstall wouldn't work on XP. Enabling SharedDllRefCount sets the legacy ref-count here:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs
Some SharedDllRefCount cleanup details here: MSI not uninstalling .dll files
Conditions Table: Are there any entries in the Condition table? (Feature conditions).
Round 1 (misunderstood the question - again - a couple of items still apply):
Debug Logging: Perhaps try to run your uninstall with verbose, debug logging to see if you can get some more information about what the problem can be:
msiexec.exe /x {ProductCode} /L*vx! C:\Your.log
Security Software: Is there anti-virus or security software on the problem box? If so, try to disable it before you run the uninstall.
Event Log: Maybe have a quick look for any clues in the event viewer? (Windows + Tap R. type eventvwr and pressOK). Check the different logs.
Custom Actions: Do you have any custom actions that run on uninstall? If so, what type of custom action? Managed code?
Service Credentials: Is the password for the service account still valid on that problem box? If worst comes to worst, can you log on with those service credentials (if that is possible) and try to start and stop the service to check for errors? Maybe even try to run the service with your own admin account? This is not ideal any of it, and should only be done to get to the bottom of this.
There have been a lot of service questions on StackOverflow lately. Here are some recent answers:
Wix - ServiceControl start takes four minutes to fail, should be 30 sec
Wix Service Installer sometimes fails to install or start
Wix installer: installed service unable to read HKLM registry entries on start
Description
When launching any Console Application, the code stops running immediately on an AccessViolationException (Additional information: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt). More info included in the next section.
Technical Symptoms
The Call Stack only contains external code:
Exception:Thrown: "The message filter indicated that the application is busy. >(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER))" (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException)
A System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException was thrown: "The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER))"
Time: 12/10/2015 10:59:55 AM
Thread:vshost.NotifyLoad[15344]
I created a new Console Application, containing only Console.WriteLine("Hello world!");
Running the new Hello world app results in the same exception and an identical
call stack.
Background
I suspect this has nothing to do with the issue, as I will explain, but I feel it is important to answer the obvious question, "what were you doing when the issue happend?" The last change I made was adding an extension to my Selenium Driver to hotkey logout from an application:
public static void logout(this IWebDriver Driver)
{
Driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body")).Click();
new Actions(Driver)
.SendKeys(Keys.Control + Keys.Shift + "x")
.Perform();
}
I also made a change in my App.Config file for one of my projects, but reverting this had no impact either.
Removing this code (the Driver extension and/or the App.Config change) does not resolve this issue. Retrieving a previous check-in does not resolve the issue. I am the only person currently working on this solution.
Discoveries
As mentioned, this is happening for an empty Console Application. Windows Form Applications launch fine. Unit Test Projects launch fine as well.
Research
I've spent hours looking into this. It seems like every similar issue I have looked into is pertinent to debugging only or a .NET version. For me, the issue occurs with a Release as well. Additionally, I have been using .NET 4.5 without any issues or changes on that front. I can't find any articles that seem worth posting, but I might be overlooking something.
Visual Studio Info
Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
Version 12.0.30501.00 Update 2
.NET Version 4.6.00081 (just noticed it says 4.5 in my project properties, though)
Running as Administrator
Feedback
When Running from devenv.exe /SafeMode, Visual Studio loaded with:
An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame. This information is also logged in "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ActivityLog.xml".
Exception details:
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsShell5.LoadPackageWithContext(Guid& packageGuid, Int32 reason, Guid& context)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.GetPackage()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.ConstructContent()
Additionally, when trying to run, I get an error message of "Error while trying to run project: Invalid Pointer" (again, VS in devenv.exe /SafeMode - see how to run visual studio without plugin and all third party feature if unfamiliar)
Please let me know if I can provide any additional information.
It may be because when you name the project you can't put spaces, I put them and it gave me a AccessViolationException aswell, try using capitals to separate your words, but only use letters and no spaces to be sure.
I also faced this issue with Visual Studio 2010. More interestingly I had several projects in my solution (Console application, WPF application, Windows Forms application) but it was failing only when, I was setting the project which was of type "Console Application" as start up project. Following change finally helped me nail down the issue: Go to project properties of the console application project -> Go to "Debug" tab -> Go to "Enable Debuggers" section in right pane -> Check the "Enable unmanaged code debugging" check box as shown in the snapshot below. Root cause of why it happened is still not known to me. Only thing which I observed as fishy was that there were lot of windows updates which had got installed on my machine the previous night which mostly constituted of office updates and OS updates (More than a dozen KB articles).
I have now had an error with VS2013 and WP8.1 silverlight for a couple of days.
I get a couple of different errors, ..Ensure unlocked screen.., AgHost.exe could not be launched, port is in use by another program and ensure the device is unlocked.
These errors came suddenly after I retarged the solution. I have no compiling errors.
Solution Attempts
Restart PC
Restart program
unregister and reregister the phone
reinstall Update 3
reinstall VS2013
Windows Phone 8 Application crash once its launched AgHost.exe' has exited with code -532265403
Install VS2015 with no luck.
reinstall VS2013 Update 4
Nothing worked. The error is also the same for emulator as well as different devices. I can however get the release mode installed. Break points can be used when using release mode, but I have to Clean, Rebuild and then deploy for every time I want to deploy the application. Further the deploy time has gone up exponentially. Before upgrading I used a maximum of 10 seconds. Now it is above a minute in wait time. :/
Anyone has a solution for this ?
Extra
If I run the solution before upgrade on device or Emulator It spins up with debugger. If then go to the updated WP81, I get a popup with info Something is taking longer then normal and then it crashes with ..Ensure unlocked screen.. :/
Could it be an issue with the differen SDKS?
During a repair of all the SDKs, I found an issue with the event log, which I cleared based on The Event Log File is full
Still no success.
Extra
I cannot spin up the emulator from VS2013, when using the WP8.1 solution, but the wp8.0 solution in the same VS works :S
I found an error in a log file, from:
The errors are:
[0F08:14A8][2015-07-23T09:11:44]: Applying execute package: silverlight5_DRT, action: Repair, path: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\DEB5078B60B74431E2830831EB48DF129CB32932\packages\Silverlight\5.0_DRT\Silverlight_Developer.exe, arguments: '"C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\DEB5078B60B74431E2830831EB48DF129CB32932\packages\Silverlight\5.0_DRT\Silverlight_Developer.exe" /q /ignorewarnings'
[0F08:14A8][2015-07-23T09:11:45]: Error 0x800705de: Process returned error: 0x5de
[0F08:14A8][2015-07-23T09:11:45]: Error 0x800705de: Failed to execute EXE package.
[0550:0E74][2015-07-23T09:11:45]: Error 0x800705de: Failed to configure per-machine EXE package.
[0550:0E74][2015-07-23T09:11:45]: MUX: Installation size in bytes for package: silverlight5_DRT MaxAppDrive: 0 MaxSysDrive: 0 AppDrive: 0 SysDrive: 0
AND
[0F08:14A8][2015-07-23T09:16:16]: Applying execute package:
{312d9252-c71c-4c84-b171-f4ad46e22098}, action: Repair, path:
C:\ProgramData\Package
Cache{312d9252-c71c-4c84-b171-f4ad46e22098}\VS2012.4.exe, arguments:
'"C:\ProgramData\Package
Cache{312d9252-c71c-4c84-b171-f4ad46e22098}\VS2012.4.exe" -repair
-quiet -burn.related.patch' [0F08:14A8][2015-07-23T09:16:23]: Error 0x80048bc7: Process returned error: 0x80048bc7
[0F08:14A8][2015-07-23T09:16:23]: Error 0x80048bc7: Failed to execute
EXE package. [0550:0E74][2015-07-23T09:16:23]: Error 0x80048bc7:
Failed to configure per-machine EXE package.
Anybody knows what to do with this? The error is coming when I repair Windows Phone SDK 8.0
There was a post-VS2013 update for the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, some odds that you don't have it installed since you did not need it before. The download location is here.
Getting error messages like "port is in use" when there's no obvious reason why it should be in use and seeing excessive download times is also a very strong selector for your installed anti-malware product getting in the way. No specific advice on how to configure it when we don't know what it might be. You definitely first want to try to temporarily disable it so you can identify it as the source of the problem.
I have no Idea of what is the issue, but creating a new solution and importing the existing projects into a new solution has solved all the issues regarding emulator and debugger an AgHost.
Seems like the upgrade function integrated in the solution did not work properly.
Over the last few weeks I've seen errors appearing in the windows logs quoting the following:
The description for Event ID 100 from source System.ServiceModel.Activation 4.0.0.0 cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
System.InvalidOperationException: Etw registration failed with error code e.
at System.Runtime.Diagnostics.DiagnosticsEventProvider..ctor(Guid providerGuid)
at System.Runtime.Diagnostics.EtwProvider..ctor(Guid id)
at System.Runtime.Diagnostics.DiagnosticTrace.CreateEtwProvider(Guid etwProviderId)
at System.Runtime.Diagnostics.DiagnosticTrace..ctor(String traceSourceName, Guid etwProviderId)
w3wp
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This is a windows server 2008, running sites under IIS and .NET 4
These errors are happening every 30 seconds or so now, and I have no idea where they are originating from.
All of the sites are running under the default ASP.NET v4.0 application pool.
Any one else had this error before?
I don't really want to do anything like a .NET repair unless I have to, as this is a live server and the sites on it are in use.
Thanks for any help.
when i install wcf service hosting on windows service using InstallUtil i get the following Error Message.
An exception occurred during the Rollback phase of the System.ServiceProcess.Ser
viceProcessInstaller installer.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an obj
ect.
An exception occurred during the Rollback phase of the installation. This except
ion will be ignored and the rollback will continue. However, the machine might n
ot fully revert to its initial state after the rollback is complete.
The Rollback phase completed successfully.
The transacted install has completed.
The installation failed, and the rollback has been performed.
Can You please tell me how to overcome this problem?
Do it as an Admin. I mean to say run a command prompt as an Admin and try. I had the same error and solved using this technique.
There should be more information in the assemblyname.InstallLog file. Check for errors there first.
Check the application event log, run this:
eventvwr.msc
You can see there the details of the real exception your'e getting.
If you're System.ServiceModel settings is in the configuration file, the error you're getting might be because of an invalid configuration settings.
You can follow this tutorial in installing a Managed Windows Service if you're having a hard time in the installation.