MSI Package hangs-up when calculating disk space

Question

In my team we prepared an msi installer package for our application. Package is made in WIX contains custom UI, call custom actions from C# library and almost everything works fine except one thing: calculating required disk space. On this stage whole installer hangs up from time to time, especially when client testing it :( We have the same problems on developing machine, but restarting installer helps, so this error is quite random. I was googling a little bit and found two workarounds, all based on command line parameters:

msiexec /i filename.msi (change state messages handling)

and

msiexec /package /qr (starting package with limited UI)

unfortunately its not a solution for me, because installer has to working without passing extra parameters to it when user want to install application :(

I'll be appreciate for any clue in my investigation :)

See what's there in the verbose log. Run your MSI like this: msiexec /i filename.msi LOGVERBOSE=1 /l*+v install.log — Yan Sklyarenko
Everything is correct (no errors, warning, etc), except that installer hanging-up on disk costing message :( — Maciej Czerwiakowski

Christopher Painter Christopher Painter · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-06T11:38:01

You'll want to read this blog post:

It’s time to experiment

The exact cause is unknown but the workaround is to opt out of WiX's WaitForCostingDlg dialog.

MSI Package hangs-up when calculating disk space

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