Wubi crashes on installation in Windows Vista/7

[Evan]

Wubi crashes in Windows 7 when trying to copy the uninstaller to the target drive.

[Evan (ev)]

Running it as Administrator, as requested, I get further, but it still errors out towards the end.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Evan, for the permission issue, run Wubi as administrator (I will need further info on how to escalate privileges in W7).

For the second log, there is a typo:

src/wubi/backends/common/backend.py, line 448

log.error("CD check failed, but ignoring because CD is %" % subversion)

should be

log.error("CD check failed, but ignoring because CD is %s" % subversion)

On a side note, you might want to review carefully that block of code, since it will trigger a new code path upon final release. The logic is that when you use a pre-release CD, the md5 check will normally fail because that is performed against the latest daily ISO. Let me know if you want to have different logic in there. In 8.10 I was checking the md5 of the squashfs inside the CD before extracting the ISO, here I check the full ISO after extraction, but ignore any error for pre-release stuff.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Fix for the second log is in rev90, will leave the bug open as a reminder about W7 permissions

[Evan (ev)]

The permission error occurs in Windows Vista as well, according to bug 341181

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

Probably the permission errors can be sorted with the manifest file

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx

Try to add:

<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="true"/>

inside of src/pylauncher/pylauncher.exe.manifest

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

=== modified file 'src/pylauncher/pylauncher.exe.manifest'
--- src/pylauncher/pylauncher.exe.manifest 2009-02-28 12:34:33 +0000
+++ src/pylauncher/pylauncher.exe.manifest 2009-03-12 09:16:51 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
   name="application_name"
   type="win32" />
  <description>No description.</description>
+ <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
+ <security>
+ <requestedPrivileges>
+ <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false"/>
+ </requestedPrivileges>
+ </security>
+ </trustInfo>
  <dependency>
   <dependentAssembly>
    <assemblyIdentity

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

20090316

This is now installing the windows side of things in vista