georgerobinson
Posts: 1
Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:17 pm

Azure Devops - Advanced Installer hangs with no real error message.

Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:23 pm

Hi

I bought advanced installer 2 days ago, followed every video and guide I can find. My setup is quite simple but when it gets to this task:

- task: AdvancedInstaller@2
displayName: 'Build Advanced Installer package Digital Signature.aip'
inputs:
advinstLicense: '$(advancedinstaller.license)'
aipExtraCommands: 'SetDigitalCertificateFile -file $(leadhootzCertificate.secureFilePath)'
aipPath: '$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)\installer\LinkedInAutomation.aip'
aipBuild: 'DefaultBuild'


It times out (after about 60 minutes). Should it really take this long? But I don't get any meaningful error message so I don't know what to do next.

Starting: Build Advanced Installer package Digital Signature.aip
==============================================================================
Task : Advanced Installer Build
Description : Build setup packages using Advanced Installer.
Version : 2.0.7
Author : Caphyon
Help :
==============================================================================
Downloading: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/downloads/updates.ini
Checking if a cached copy exists for this version...
Cache does not contains this Advanced Installer version. Will be downloaded and installed.
Downloading Advanced Installer. URL: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/downl ... dvinst.msi
Downloading: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/downl ... dvinst.msi
Extracting Advanced Installer
"C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe" /a "D:\a\_temp\45e51da0-3a84-4216-a402-7db0ef2d0e78" TARGETDIR="D:\a\_temp\AdvancedInstaller\resources" /qn /l*v "D:\a\_temp\AdvancedInstaller\advinst_install.log"
Caching Advanced Installer tool.
Caching tool: advinst 19.3.0 x86
Successfully cached Advanced Installer tool. Version 19.3
Registering Advanced Installer.
C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\advinst\19.3.0\x86\bin\x86\AdvancedInstaller.com /RegisterCI ***
Prepending PATH environment variable with directory: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\advinst\19.3.0\x86\bin\x86
C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\advinst\19.3.0\x86\bin\x86\AdvancedInstaller.com /execute D:\a\1\a\installer\LinkedInAutomation.aip D:\a\_temp\17839.aic
##[error]The operation was canceled.
Finishing: Build Advanced Installer package Digital Signature.aip

Catalin
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Joined: Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:49 am

Re: Azure Devops - Advanced Installer hangs with no real error message.

Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:44 pm

Hello George and welcome to our forums,

From what I can see, you have an ongoing ticket with my colleague Dan over the email with the same problem.

Please continue it there so we can avoid duplicate threads.

If you have any other question, please let me know and I will be glad to help.

Best regards,
Catalin
Catalin Gheorghe - Advanced Installer Team
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