light.exe : error LGHT0306 : An error (E_FAIL) was returned while finalizing a CAB file.

[coolerdoncooper]

Running two Windows 11 Pro vms on Fedora Linux. One vm runs light.exe just fine and creates the .msi. The other vm has this error when trying to create the .msi using the exact same codebase, exact same toolset, exact same version of Windows, everything the same.

I define a WIX_TEMP on a D: drive with 100Gig free space. AV/WD off, full access permissions for all user and groups including the service account doing the build. It uses the same build artifacts as the other vm. The first cab file is created, there are ten files and I can extract them. But as it is finalizing the CAB file, whatever that means, it throws this error and quits.

The pipeline is being triggered by a Gitlab runner.