Wix light.exe : error LGHT0001: The system cannot open the device or file specified.

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Published on 2014-05-30T03:23:29Z Indexed on 2014/05/30 3:24 UTC
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Today we build our product with MSBuild /m to build with multiprocess.

Before we do a change to heat some files in pre-build event, build with MSBuild multiprocess can be success.

Now build is failed with following exception:

124>light.exe : error LGHT0001: The system cannot open the device or file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007006E) [...MSI.wixproj]
     Exception Type: System.IO.FileLoadException

     Stack Trace:
        at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.MergeMod.IMsmMerge2.OpenModule(String fileName, Int16 language)
        at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.MergeModules(String tempDatabaseFile, Output output, FileRowCollection fileRows, StringCollection suppressedTableNames)
        at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.BindDatabase(Output output, String databaseFile)
        at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.Bind(Output output, String file)
        at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args)
(Link target) -> light.exe : error LGHT0001: The system cannot open the device or file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007006E) [...Msi.wixproj]

using Wix 3.8

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