.sis installation crashes

Hi,

I'm porting my app to UIQ3 / Symbian 9. I've created a self signed sis 
file.

I beam the sis file to the phone, the installer runs, progress bar goes 
to about 90%, it waits for two seconds and then the installer silently 
exits. Nothing gets installed and no error message.

The installer contains 10 files in total. If I remove the actual 
application file:

"C:\Symbian\UIQ3SDK\epoc32\BUILD\symbianprojects\....\<myapp>.exe&quo
t;-"!:\sys\bin\<myapp>.exe"

from the .pkg file then the installer finishes and gives the 
'installation succesful' message.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Bob wrote:
> The installer contains 10 files in total. If I remove the actual 
> application file:
> 
>
"C:\Symbian\UIQ3SDK\epoc32\BUILD\symbianprojects\....\<myapp>.exe&quo
t;-"!:\sys\bin\<myapp>.exe" 

I should be a bit more specific: my installer also installs a DLL into 
\sys\bin. The installer also fails if I try to install the dll alone.

Only if I leave out both the dll and the exe (hence install nothing to 
\sys\bin\) then the installer succeeds.

Thanks for any help

"Bob" <bob@bob.com> wrote in message 
news:rmwvJcJ3GHA.5268@UKCOL01WWEB01.symbian.intra...
> Bob wrote:
>> The installer contains 10 files in total. If I remove the actual 
>> application file:
>>
>>
"C:\Symbian\UIQ3SDK\epoc32\BUILD\symbianprojects\....\<myapp>.exe&quo
t;-"!:\sys\bin\<myapp>.exe"
>
> I should be a bit more specific: my installer also installs a DLL into 
> \sys\bin. The installer also fails if I try to install the dll alone.
>
> Only if I leave out both the dll and the exe (hence install nothing to 
> \sys\bin\) then the installer succeeds.

It could be a capability issue, i.e your app uses capabilities that aren't 
granted in your devcert.


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Sander van der Wal
www.mBrainSoftware.com 

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:42:01 +0100, Bob <bob@bob.com> wrote:

> Sander van der Wal wrote:
>> It could be a capability issue, i.e your app uses capabilities that  
>> aren't granted in your devcert.
>
> For now, the .mmp files of the DLL and the EXE have CAPABILITY NONE.
>
> The sis file is signed using a self-signed certificate (using  
> createsis). UIDs are assigned by symbian in the 0xA.. range. If I  
> understood correctly, I don't even have to sign the sis file in this  
> case (but it does not seem to make any difference).
>

Is it possible that files with the same UIDs already exist on the device?

I noticed you are taking the file from the BUILD directory - I would  
expect to take it from the release directory.

Check you are installing the ARMV5 or GCCE version not the WINS or WINSCW  
version.

> My guess is that the installer does a security check on all files  
> installed to /sys/bin/, but why can't it tell me what exactly is wrong?



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Sander van der Wal wrote:
> It could be a capability issue, i.e your app uses capabilities that aren't

> granted in your devcert.

For now, the .mmp files of the DLL and the EXE have CAPABILITY NONE.

The sis file is signed using a self-signed certificate (using 
createsis). UIDs are assigned by symbian in the 0xA.. range. If I 
understood correctly, I don't even have to sign the sis file in this 
case (but it does not seem to make any difference).

My guess is that the installer does a security check on all files