Comments on: Verbose logging from WcaUtil

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:31:52 +0000

Eric provided a fix to let any immediate-mode logging “remember” the setting for later deferred WcaLog calls. It doesn’t change any issues with the policy setting, however.

By: Tony Juricic

Tony Juricic — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:37:24 +0000

By: Tony Juricic

Tony Juricic — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:35:28 +0000

I could have sworn that it worked for me at one time. However, I am having the same problem as Neil, only I enable verbose log in Debug builds like this:

By: Neil Sleightholm

Neil Sleightholm — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:57:52 +0000

Bug reported: Id=642714

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:10:59 +0000

Bummer. OK, please feel free to file a bug; I can’t promise to look at it this week (lots of other stuff going on) but I don’t want to conveniently forget about it!

By: Neil Sleightholm

Neil Sleightholm — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:54:25 +0000

I am not using 64 bit. I am using the logging policy in: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer]. I copied the code from the user comment attached the link you put in your original post.

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:07:33 +0000

Neil,

Hmmm…Well, I’m out of ideas at the moment. WcaLog should work the same way regardless of the CA calling it. … Oh wait. I can’t believe I didn’t see this: The logging you point out is in a deferred CA, so it’ll never see either property. That’s a hole we should plug…

That said, the policy registry key should still be readable, even from a deferred CA. Any chance you’re running this on an x64 OS? If you’re using the 32-bit CA, the logger will be looking under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies.

By: Neil Sleightholm

Neil Sleightholm — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:54:03 +0000

I guess it is possible but the permissions are being set. I am doing this on Windows XP, with Installer v4.0 if that makes any difference. I have figured out what I was looking for now but if I get time I’ll try and debug PermissionEx to see what is happening.

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:50:41 +0000

Neil,

I tried to reproduce this with a sample for the CloseApp CA and couldn’t — its verbose messages showed up with any of the three options above. Is it possible the loop isn’t getting entered?

By: Neil Sleightholm

Neil Sleightholm — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:53:46 +0000

They are all WiX CAs, the one I was look at recently was PermissionEx. The trace line I was expecting was from secureobj.cpp, WcaLog(LOGMSG_VERBOSE, “Securing Object: %S Type: %S User: %S”, pwzObject, pwzTable, pwzUser);