FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
1.4.2_10-b03

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6a with all patches applied.

EXTRA RELEVANT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION :
Internet Explorer 6 SP1 with all patches installed
Windows Installer Version: 2.0.2600.2

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
During silent installation of JRE 1.4.2_10 an access violation occurs in msiexec.exe. The access violation seemingly occurs while executing RegisterJavaWS custom action (last entry in log file at time of error).

Dr. Watson is unable to create drwatson.log

I registered WinDbg.exe as post mortem debugger and WinDbg tells me that the process is "inside" the loader lock. So it seems to me that there is a problem loading/unloading the DLL implementing the custom action (DLLWRAP.DLL ?).

Installing JRE 1.4.2_09 and JRE 1.4.2_08 results in an access violation as well.

The last JRE I could successfully install was 1.4.2_07

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1)
Extract MSI-File from j2re-1_4_2_10-windows-i586-p.exe (Launch j2re-1_4_2_10-windows-i586-p.exe and grab file from Temp-Folder\ProductCode).

2)
start msiexec /I MSI-File-from-step-1 /Qn /Lvoicewarmup "%TEMP%\Java.log" REBOOT=ReallySuppress ADDLOCAL=ALL ALLUSERS=1



EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
JRE 1.4.2_10 installs without errors
ACTUAL -
An access violation occurs in msiexec.exe.

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
An access violation occurred in msiexec.exe.

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.