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CXZAR
9th Sep 05, 10:27 AM
hey guys, i just got Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of war, and i was pretty excited to play it, but it get this weird error at the beggining of the installation, im gonna try to translate it from spanish :P is says something like this

"Error: -1639 The argument of the command line is invalid, check the SDK windows installer documentation to get detailed help about commands"

anyways, what is this all about? i checked on google and i came with this possible solution, but i have no idea what to do

Greetings!

The problem was a wayward environment variable.

Yes, SYSTEM and installer user have the correct permissions.

Turns out that the problem was a wayward environment variable.
HOMEPATH was set to "Documents and Settings"\"..login.."\"My Documents"

This was shown in the log file (by manual execution of msiexec with log
flags) to come out as
%HOMEPATH=

Correction of HOMEPATH to C:\...full path fixed the problem

Gerard


so, i hope someone can give me an advice or a solution for this weird problem, thank's in advance!!!!

Moe
9th Sep 05, 11:44 AM
dxdiag.txt please. I think something might be fuzzy with your installer.

CXZAR
9th Sep 05, 1:35 PM
there u go!!! thank's in advance!

CXZAR
10th Sep 05, 2:01 AM
anyone? please, i havent solved this problem and is really pissing me off!!! :( i really want to play this game

Moe
10th Sep 05, 4:13 AM
Ok, patch windows XP to service pack 2 and then visit windows update and install all critical patches. This will update your installer.