WiX Toolset Catastrophic failure running light.exe

Question

When running light.exe on our build server we are now seeing the following error:

light.exe : error LGHT0001: Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) [blah.wixproj] build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec] build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec]
Exception Type: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec] build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28
[exec] Stack Trace: build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec] at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Cab.Interop.NativeMethods.CreateCabFinish(IntPtr contextHandle, IntPtr newCabNamesCallBackAddress) build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec] at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Cab.WixCreateCab.Complete(IntPtr newCabNamesCallBackAddress) build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec]
at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.CabinetBuilder.CreateCabinet(CabinetWorkItem cabinetWorkItem) build 12-Mar-2019 16:07:28 [exec] at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.CabinetBuilder.ProcessWorkItems()

We get nothing useful in the exception message, nor the event logs. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks

Answer 1

this one is really weird, I suspect that it might have something to do with MSI packages - I have bootstrapper, perfectly working with a large number of MSI packages, but one set of packages causes this exception. Mystery

Answer 2

Maybe you've reached CAB size limit 2GB?