Now is a good time to break out Process Monitor and capture a simple reproduction of the launch and subsequent silent exit. A not so nice silent exit with NO error message whatsoever. You may notice the process starts in Task Manager but then disappears. However, when you go to launch the application, nothing happens. You have virtualized an application(Google Chrome 15) with App-V 5 and it adds/publishes successfully. Symptom: I double-clicked on the virtual application – AND NOTHING HAPPENS! If you would like to follow along and try this at home, download the Google Chrome 15 Enterprise Installer ( ) – sequence it accepting all defaults on a clean sequencer template (default exclusions) and enjoy the troubleshooting! My favorite is Aaron Parker’s (an APP-V MVP) 4.6 recipe: (Yes, I am a fan of the stealth puppy.) It is one of the many examples of one of our solid MVP’s sharing quality APP-V packaging information to prevent others from having to reinvent the wheel. I chose this one because it is really easy to create a bad sequence (using the Google Enterprise Installer.) All you do is during monitoring – is accept all defaults (click – next – next – next etc.) Now if you ever have had to sequence Google Chrome and did your research on the Internets, you have found many complicated recipes for Google Chrome. The application we will be looking at is Google Chrome 15 sequenced with App-V 5. ![]() ![]() This is a good way to demonstrate the use of Process Monitor to track process exit codes in order to resolve issues. I figured a good place to start was using an application that fails and leaves NO error message whatsoever. My answer is usually along the lines of “they troubleshot/revered engineered/mangled though until they came up with something that worked.” We know the next question: How do you learn to do that? To keep my promise in helping people to *LEARN* to troubleshoot virtual applications, I have been working on scenarios using real-world applications. In a previous blog post ( ) I discussed the “art” of troubleshooting virtual applications and mentioned the fact that there are a lot of custom recipe’s out on the Internet (many courtesy of our own MVP’s.) People ask me how they figure these out.
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