Problem with WPI

[midiboy]

Hi !

I am having a strange problem suddenly with WPI. Everything used to run fine but now suddenly during the unattended installation process on Vista during the silent Office 2007 installation, WPI throws an error (in German) that says:

restart config file could not be opened

C:\rb_config.js

Then, a Script debugger window opens and shows the content of the reboot.js.

I have attached screenshots of both events.

While this is happening, the installation of other programs continues but the WPI window is not shown anymore and Windows does not reboot afterwards. If I force a reboot through task manager, Windows then tells me after the reboot that installation failed and has to be started again.

I do not understand this problem at all because nowhere have I told WPI to reboot at this stage in the process or to run again after a reboot.

The code in the config.js while this is happening is simply this:

prog[pn]=['Office Enterprise 2007'];
ordr[pn]=[42];
uid[pn]=['OFFICEENT'];
dflt[pn]=['yes'];
cat[pn]=['Office'];
forc[pn]=['no'];
cmd1[pn]=['"%root%\\Setup\\Microsoft\\Office2007\\silent_install.cmd"'];
pn++;

The silent_install.cmd only contains the Office 2007 setup command.

Any ideas why this is happening ? I am at a loss here ...

Thanks for your help

Alex

PS: The rb_config.js is on C: by the way and I was able to open it on the commandline. Also the WPI_log.txt file does not show any error, even the commands after that incident were seemingly installed correctly.

Edited November 3, 2007 by midiboy

[Kelsenellenelvian]

This is a known issue we can only attribute to MS (You would have found that had you searched a little) as far as we can tell it is due to a hotfix beiing added to the updates folder of office 2007. WHich one it is we have yet to nail down but hteir is nothing we can do about it.

[midiboy]

Hi Kelsenellenelvian,

oh, ok ... sorry for not searching first.

This is indeed very strange ...

Thanks for the quick response.

Bye,

Alex