Soooo, my reply would have only taken about 20 minutes, but then I was curious and started testing AP again, and here we are 6 hours later. lolChrisJ wrote:To clarify, is this an installation (launching, running) issue or detection issue for you? On Nov. 21 you mentioned that they were installed into Programs & Features but not detected in AP, I'm assuming you meant that the list remained Black (uninstalled) rather than Blue (installed)?
OS = Win 7 SP 1 x86/32-bit
The exe's for AP 6140 & AP 6132 are in the same folder, just with different exe names.
AP 6140:
I ran AP 6140 again, selecting all the Adobe programs (I had uninstalled all of them previously).
- Reader & Shockwave both launched in AP, and show as detected/installed in both AP and P&F.
- Flash Player (ALL of them) & AIR - There were no errors for the installers, but AP zipped by each of them very quickly. None of them showed as detected/installed in either AP or P&F.
I ran the Adobe AIR install manually from a command line: AdobeAIRInstaller.exe -silent
It successfully installed, then showed as detected/installed in both AP and P&F.
AP 6132:
I don't have an old apm file to test but I removed all Adobe programs again then ran AP 6132, selecting all the Adobe programs. All of them installed successfully, and showed detected/installed in AP 6132 & 6140 and in P&F.
Uninstalled them again then tried AP 6140 again, with the same results as when I ran AP 6140 before running AP 6132.
I had Process Explorer running the whole time, and can confirm that the actual installers for all the Adobe programs ARE launching, but for some reason when launched from AP 6140, the installs of Flash Player & AIR are, I dunno, terminating early? But seems fine from AP 6132. Are there Adobe install log files? - Found them, and posted them here:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1290
Looks like the log files in AP 6140 do some more reporting than in AP 6132 -
From autopatcher.log for AP 6132:
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Installing Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.270 for Internet Explorer
trying to execute a module's installation/removal commands.
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Installing Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.270 for Internet Explorer
trying to execute an external command or program.
Executing command: "C:\AutoPatcher\modules\AddOns\Adobe_files\install_flash_player_20_active_x.exe" -install
So to answer your questions, it must be an installation issue in AP 6140. Because if the programs are installed (through AP 6132 or directly), then AP 6140 does detect them. But if they are not installed, then AP 6140 kicks off the programs' installers but the installs terminate early (or whatever is happening).
So what is different that would cause this?